HI Magus069,That's exactly what I did and it works great!Fred

At this point, I've concluded that you can't have global variables available to both JS and FormCalc other than File>Form Properties>Variables. I converted my scripts to JS and implemented your suggestion to use Function loadValue. It works great!Thanks,Fred

Thanks, I understand how that would load variables and make them available to a JavaScript event in the form. What I'm after, however, is a global variable that one could use in either a JS or FormCalc event without using File>Form Properties>Variables. Maybe this can't be done.Thanks for your respo...

Much better than messageBox. Got rid of the beep too. Radzmar, the Dialog file that you recommended sure made it easy to code this as my JS ability is limited. Thanks!My only regret is the color factor. The gradient is interesting but the color is limited to Dialog, Windows or Tooltip background col...