>I'm going to answer you both at once...
>
>FRED:
>"Are you sure you don't have any code in the Init method of the class instance on the form? If you do, it won't do your "base" code."
>
>VIN:
>"That's not normal behavior. You should be able to call other methods from an Init. Are you sure it is not running? It might be worth sticking a breakpoint in there and tracing the program execution...."
>
>There isn't any code overriding it. It does everything else in the init properly. The _only_ thing it doesn't do is call this method. I tried putting a wait window in the method and it doesn't come up. The cursor it builds isn't getting built. It's very strange.
>
>I tried putting a suspend right before the method call and it doesn't suspend. WAIT WINDOW doesn't work, either. But I know it's getting in there and doing the rest of the code because I can see the visible results.
>
>It's quite bizarre.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Michelle

If you don't hit your wait window or a messagebox in your Init code before you call your custom code, then it is NOT running what you think it is. Try putting a SUSPEND in your Init method (baseclass) and stepping through the code. You might be surprised...