I agree with Sergey and Cetin, moreso after hearing your explanation.

If you're using a parameterized view, open it with USE (theview) NODATA. You can Requery() it when its parameters are available *any time* without regard to the order of instantiation.

You DO NOT need to fiddle with instantiation order to get that view available to your grid.

ZORDER() is a simple method. It only does two things: send to front and send to back. The front-to-back order (or Z order) controls instantiation order.

Dan

>Hi Sergey and Cetin,
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>Thanks for your warning about relying on instantiation order. This is why I have to do it: I am building a control which will be placed on various forms. The control contains a grid whose control source is a local view that requires parameters to be set which must be done in code. I must set the parameters and open the local view before the grid instantiates. To do this, I am placing another object (let's call it a loader object) on the control whose Init method will open the local view. Therefore, this loader object must be instantiated before the grid. I can't think of any other way to do it. Any ideas?
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>Sergey, I see the method ZOrder. I don't understand how I call it to set the instantiation order of objects within a container, can you explain?
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>Thanks, Chaim