Glenn,

Nope, the form Init fires after all of the controls have instantiated and before anything has painted on the screen. If you put the code in the Activate() you'd need to add code to make sure it only happens the first time and not every time the form regains focus.

>Shouldn't he do this kind of thing in the first activate event? Drew Speedie wrote an article in FPA a couple of years ago about forms instanciation and coined "LISAG". Hed should probably check out the article.