Hi Anthony,

I think you can use both types of controls. The only advantage I see to using the "containered" ones is that the builder allows you to work with the data and the caption from a single place.

One drawback of using the ones in the container is that it's more cumbersome to resize things (you have to resize the container and then the controls in it).

I prefer using the loose ones and deal with the captions and alignment myself.

Alex

>I've noticed in the framework, many of the basic controls are available both individually as well as grouped with a label and placed within a container.
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>Example:
>cTextBoxNumeric vs cTextBoxNumericL
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>Is this just a matter of convience for a developers preference? Or does the framework actually handle the container better in some way, then it does the individual controls.
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>My preference is to not group them. But I'm worried something in the framework might bite me later if I continue like this.
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>Thanks,
>Anthony