Mo,
The ActiveX uses it's own window inside your form. It's probably taking that long for it to get a repaint message, or taking that long to process it. You might try explicitly calling it's Paint() method if it has one.
>Hello
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>I have a form with left side is activeX (Green Tree Tree) and the left side a regular VFP class.
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>On some action I present the user with a Modal screen Yes/No/Cancel kind of a screen.
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>The problem is, when I make the Yes/No/Cancel form visible = .F., the part over teh VFP side will disappear promptly as it should but the part over teh ActiveX part takes about 2-4 second to disappear.
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>Is this a normal behavior with activeX???
>How it can be fixed???