yup - but thanks for looking, anyhow....

I just set the sig handlers just in case there was something to discover with them... didn't work on the minimalist sig support that Active could get into the interp... and I of course was not making a message loop...

guess I'll have to get familiar with the debugger, and hope that something shows there. Hate to have to write off such a neat language as unusable - especially if the fault is mine. Unless I can develop a (or leverage someone else's) feel for the quirks and fixes, this kind of impenetrability is a deal breaker for someone who gets paid by the hour, like me...

Thanks for your time, everyone!

Dick