Good thought... I\'ll try that out before i edit... or i wonder also if a general:

On 1:dialog:CMP:sclick:*:{
  if $did = 13 { set %CMPchan1 $$?=\"Enter Channel Name\"

etc ... which takes out the need for the \"elseif\" conditions? I will try that out soon too.
This was entered as my second real piece of code, and while I have improved a little since then I am grateful for all the improvement pointers.