If you think you found an error in one of my books, why not write me directly? My company maintains an errata system for all our books which we try to keep up to date. http://www.lanw.com/books/errata Just posting it here doesn't do much good. Looking at the JDK 1.2 source code I find: protected void processEvent(AWTEvent e) { kindly tell me what page of what book has it wrong. Bill