I won't bore you with the details, but suffice to say, the one time I had QtCreator running, it literally took 37 minutes to open. Mostly, I have other **** to do and little time to 'slap an idea together' when the fkin prog in question takes longer to open than my washing machine does to do a load!!......sorry, sore subject. My PC is NOT due for an OS reinstall and trust me, I've been through the fkin mill trying!, lol.

Otherwise, thank you for the code!, I will now have another crack at it!