>thanks John,
>
>VFP help does say:[For a Column object, you can trigger Resize in code by setting the Width property for the column.] It doesn't appear to do so. I've tried every which way.
>As for the rest (I'm near blue in the face trying) it seems like if you have a combination of width changes anywhere within the resize events, it ignores the width change. Maybe to avoid conflicts.
>
>I'm going to start fresh tomorrow, see if I can't norrow it down.

A WAG: try to put a breakpoint in container.move(), maybe that gets called.