>>>Not knowing where this fits in your application it's hard to be specific but it sounds like you need a 'read events' after setting the class to visible=.T.
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>>>Bob
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>>OK, that did the trick. . .sort of. Now when change the visible=.t., the container displays behind the pageframe where I am calling it. How do I get it to display on top?
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>>TIA,
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>>Bill
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>Bill, try this.ZOrder(0) in container.init()
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>Nick

BTW, I assume you added the container object to your form, so it is on the same level as your pageframe.