>>Anyone give me a reason why the paint event on a MDIContainer form doesn't fire ?
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>Nothing to paint :-}
>Seriously, I can't think of any other obvious reason - are you saying that it *never* fires of just doesn't fire when you are expecting it to?

As far as I can tell it never fires - I am just playing around with pens and brushes ( I know - some people have too much time ) and noticed that if IsMDIContainer is true the OnPaint event doesn't fire - set it to false and it does. It's not a showstopper for me but I can't think of a reason why this should be.