>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.

I *think* you are talking about completely normal design-time behavior. Usually it's less noticeable, since most of the time shapes are used transparently.

The only workaround that comes to mind is to keep the shapes transparent while you're editing, and then before final build make them opaque. You could even set them to opaque at runtime, if you wanted...