Thanks very much for your reply! You've helped me get leaps and bounds beyond where I was before.

I've finally had a few moments to try to play with what you suggested, and so naturally I'm stuck again. :)

From what you described, I need to pre-define my labels so that I can just refresh the text that is being assigned to them. So far, good. Since this is a stock quote app that I'm writing, I've got a list of stocks I read out of a config file and save to a hash.

My thought was to do something along the lines of: 

my %stocks = (^DJI =>{sec_label => $main->AddLabel( stuff...),
                     current_label => #current price of stock,
                     arrow_label => #direction of stock,
                     change_label => #price change,
                     pctchg_label => #percent change}
              )

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and I'm building this dynamically since I may add or delete stocks at any time and that's working out perfectly.

What I'm getting stuck on is how to put parameters in the 

$stocks{$key}{arrow_label}->Text( $var );

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part where I'm just updating the text. In the arrow_label part of the hash, I want to be able to change the color to either red or green depending if a stock is going down or up respectively. Is there even a way to do that or am I stuck with just text?

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In reply to Re^2: Refreshing text without flicker with AddLabel using Win32::GUI by Popcorn Dave
in thread Refreshing text without flicker with AddLabel using Win32::GUI by Popcorn Dave

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