Rats, you caught me. First Eiffel Studio asked if I wanted to recompile. I said NO. I ran the code to see what would happen. Then I did shift-F8 - which did nothing. Arrgh! OK, I just tried it again but this time I said YES and yes, that worked. But it really should know what needs to be done even if I press shift-F8. (I don't even see why a recompile is needed since the code is already there and acts pretty much like an 'if' statement.) Randy p.s. Alt-F8 and F7 both worked.