>Hi folks,
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>I want to use a Form to monitor the state of a series of custom methods. In other words, I want to show Stage A started, then completed, Stage B started, etc. The various Stages are custom form methods.
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>The trick is this has to happen automatically once the form is loaded (it gets called from a timer event), without any user intervention.
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>I don't know how/where to call the custom methods. Should I imbed a call directly in a form method (which one), or maybe stuff a KEYBOARD call to an invisible control, or is there a way to do this outside the form's control ? What's the best way to implement this ?
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>Thanks in advance for any tips.

I'm not sure if I understood exactly what your trying to do but have you looked at the following standard form methods:

Init()
Activate()
Load()

They all are called when a form is instantiated and you can put code in them to call custom methods.