Chuck,

My suggestion would be in the form's init. By that time all the individual controls should be done.

Renoir

>I feel this is a crazy question to ask, but I have to because it's driving ME crazy: I'm constantly wanting to run some code after everything is instantiated but have a hard time trying to figure out WHEN everything is instantiated on a form.
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>For example, I have a combobox that I want to drop down automatically after everything inits - where is the best place to do this?
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>Thanks,
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>Chuck