I'm sure many have floundered with this problem, and I hope someone has something better than the kludges I've been contemplating. I'm passing an object reference to a form. Many controls on the form are dependent on this object reference, which will be moved to a form property in Form.Init. I want the controls to establish their own link to the passed object, so what they need in effect is a "second init" after the Form.Init fires. I have a dozen different ways of making this work, but I don't especially like any of them; e.g. using global instead of passed object, creating form-level array of controls to call back when Form.Init fires, control refresh that only fires once... Any ideas?