I hear yeah bud. plan is to continue enhancing forms1 until your satisfied with BBChecker2, then I would like the opportunity to port over to TNG ... but like I said, I'm kinda following along with you, as you develop it further ...

Sleep and options settings ? Maybe as a headstart, here's a bastardized version of the optionbox from that PiXaso Paint script a while back ... with a few mods for setting a sleep value ... guess you could save state in the Registry with an optionbox strategy ?

code:
break on

$sleep = 20

$form = createobject("kixtart.form")
$form.width = 300
$form.height = 300

$setup = $form.commandbutton("Options",,,75,25)
$setup.center
$setup.onclick = "Options()"
$setup.default = 1

$form.center
$form.show
while $form.visible
 $=execute($form.doevents)
loop

?"sleep=" $sleep

exit 1

function options()

 dim $form,$delay,$ok,$cancel
 dim $okayed $okeyed = 0
 dim $canceled $canceled=0

 ; Changes global variable $sleep

 $form = createobject("kixtart.form")
 $form.caption = "Options"
 $form.width = 250
 $form.height = 150

 $form.printxy(20,20,"Enter delay value:")

 $delay = $form.textbox($sleep,20,40,100,20)

 $ok = $form.commandbutton("OK",150,20,75,20)
 $ok.onclick = "$$okayed=1"

 $cancel = $form.commandbutton("Cancel",150,$Ok.Bottom+10,75,20)
 $cancel.onclick = "$$canceled=1"
 $cancel.default = 1

 $form.center
 $form.show
 while $form.visible and not $okayed and not $canceled
  $=execute($form.doevents)
 loop
 if $okayed
  $sleep = val($delay.text)
 endif
endfunction
Actually, if one obeys proper Kixtart SCOPING rules, you can actually have TWO forms named $FORM ... a GLOBAL one, and a local one ... the UDF $FORM gets created and properly destroyed and recreated with each invocation ... but when doing this, have to insure that ALL $CONTROLS are dimmed LOCALLY to UDF ... else, no worky ...