>I have asked this before, but have not yet resolved this problem... As can be seen in the pic attached, the screens are darker than the regular windows type screens. Owner wants it this way, so I have to abide by his wishes. The problem is that when a window loads, there is a quick flash of white before the background .gif loads. I know it isn't a delay while loading the picture file, because if I take the picture out, and just have the BackColor of the form as black, or any other darkish color, it still happens. Does anyone else experience this?
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I have seen this sort of thing various times and there are some thing you can try. A quick one is Borislav's suggestion. You can combine this with loading the form off-screen and then moving it to the correct position after all form controls are loaded. And another option is to use a config.fpw file with a SCREEN=OFF statement. Load the app, load the form, and then make the app visible with _Screen.Visible = .T. when ready. Also, try using a PNG or BMP instead of a GIF. They render differently if I remember correctly. These are some things you can experiment with.

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