I have a simple non game graphics program with OpenGL written as an SDI app in VC6. It requires drawing a bouncing ball as quickly as possible. To do this I got an OnTimer event and had it invalidate the screen. However this was not fast enough, (i guess OnTimer doesn''t get called often). So i changed my drawing code to an endless loop. This greatly helped drawing performance, but made it imposible to get user input, because the drawing always had control of the process. To fix this i tried to create a seperate thread in MFC. After some struggling i got it to compile everything, but there is no drawing happening, although i verified that the draw code is running. What the heck is wrong? I have the draw code in a memeber function of the view class, and the ThreadMain endlessly calls the view''s Draw code. Again its running, but the OpenGL calls don''t seem to be working. WHY? Secondly i wanted to make sure people thought i needed the seperate thread. I couldn''t get the redraw rate i wanted with onTimer, even set to most frequent interval. How do you do your draw code that needs refresh by time, not by input? Is there another way to redraw and get input without 2 threads? All answers are great! Daniel RELIGION IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL