>I agree - you should see it when I borrow a listview node's checkbox click method to fire a a treeview itemclick on another form. It is possible to go way beyond the the obvious kludge of a mere button click - you just need to find the reason.

I was talking native controls. Once you get into cludge over cludge to get some of AXes to behave, there are no surprises. Riding a bicycle all over the ceiling is quite normal there.

>There's this one little pita quirk i am trying to predict (or at least do some rudimentary science on!). Sometimes, when a textbox (it may have data or a null assigned through its value property) receives focus - usually a mouse click - the cursor just goes lala - not to be seen until some other action frees up whatever cog was stuck!

Does that mean you could reproduce the disappearing cursor at will? Good for you!