>Does this happen to you? Is there a cure for it?
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>Whenever I have a form with many objects on it and a shape (as in a rectangle) for a background of the objects. When I click on some of the objects (textboxes, comboboxes, editboxes, etc.) they disappear and I have to go around and click on random places on the form, but I think within the shape (rectangle) in order for the objects to reappear on the screen.
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>It's almost as if they are going behind the shape, but the shape is not moving as far as I can judge.
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>Any ideas how to stop this from happening? I like to have colored shapes behind some of the objects on the form for cosmetic beauty and GUI-friendly for the user.
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>Thanks. This should be interesting...

It seems that there is a but with VFP about objects in containers.

In tne INIT method of that shape put the followind "This.zorder(1)". It won't help you in the development stage but at least it could resolve possible problems during runtime.