>What's the recommended technique to get the "snappiest" form display/redisplay?
>Even if I do initializing/updating with the form off-screen and LockScreen=.T., and
>reposition the result as the last step, I still see the window frame first and then its
>internal paint/repaint. (Hacker's Guide 7's section on LockScreen notes these
>apparently distinct batch processes) Is this the best I can do? Or is there a
>technique that I can use to minimize or (hopefully) eliminate this effect?

You can play with thisform.cls() or thisform.draw() and also instead of thisform.lockscreen use Windows API function LockWindowUpdate