Charles Calvert wrote in post #957671: > Mike, is there any chance that you could tell us what this application > does? Someone may be able to suggest an alternative that you could > automate directly from Ruby or indirectly via COM. Its a VB Health Insurance package. The application is to register, view and update new hospitals and spec|alists, and to allow them to check whether a patient has cover. So it's just reading and writing data to text boxes, dropdowns etc -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.