>>For those interested ... some time back I posted a message saying I was setting my forms' position and size in the Init or Show methods but that some ( not all ) forms were flashing before appearing in the adjusted position/size. I finally tracked this down to doing a SetFocus in the Init or Show of the errant forms. This was forcing the Activate to fire which was flashing the form before it finally displayed in its desired position/size. I removed the offending SetFocus statement(s), the problem disappeared and life is good again. :-)
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>>Bill
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>Not that I want your life to return to the bad old days, but where did you put your SetFocus() command so that your form would continue to start correctly?

Hi Barbara,

I basically just let the form set focus to the default control. I was doing the SetFocus() stuff to get grids to update after initializing them. It sometimes seemed that a Refresh() was not always sufficient to get a full update on the grid so I included a SetFocus() also. It's been awhile since I looked at this grid refreshing thing, but I think it had to do with the record pointer indicator or the whole row being highlighted or something like that. Anyway, I remember that there was something about the grid appearance I didn't like on initialization that was cured by doing a SetFocus() to it then a SetFocus() to the default field. In this case I just decided to dump the SetFocus()'s to make sure I didn't get the flashing form problem ( which is MUCH more annoying :-) ).
I haven't looked at where to put the SetFocus() if it's really needed or what else to do to avoid the flashing problem in the presence of the SetFocus(). Maybe test for a "first time in the form" property in the GotFocus() of the default field and set focus from there or something like that.

Bill