>William,
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>I have no explanation. You may want to trace ths container's refresh to verify that all controls' refresh() is fired. You wouldn't have specific code in the container and/or its parent class that has a NODEFAULT somewhere, would you ?

We put wait window in Container's refresh and one of its controls Refresh. The control's refresh wait window never showed up. In other words, the container Refresh is not calling its controls refresh method. There is no custom code in container's refresh method and no code in its subclasses.

The container is instantiated in run-time the first time the page is activated.