Hi Jess,

>I haven't tested it yet, but in theory, to me, Load event is a bit faster than DE because the latter deals with objects. I remember an article saying that the more object contained in a form, the more slower to load. Still, bottomline is the DE's ease of use, visual environment, and high level of maintainability, which are enough reasons of preferring to use it other than the Load Event.

Yes, this is a logical approach and I agree with it. My question originally stemmed from the fact that when developing forms, there is no DE available when visually designing a form class as opposed to a plain form. I was wondfering why the difference in the two situations. I guess when working with form classes, the load event is the main option. I think you could create a DE programmatically for a form class, like Codebook does, but is the obverhard really worth it for a form class. I find Codebok form classess relatively slow myself.

Thanks for your response,
Phil