>>>See the example in my FAQ #8110, for a starting point. The FAQ gives you the basic idea; from there, it should be easy to continue.
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>>>HTH, Hilmar.
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>>That's great thanks.
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>Perhaps 'twas the .Visible part you were missing. Added objects (as well as forms, instanciated with CreateObject()) automatically have .Visible = .F.; this allows you to manipulate the visual properties without the user seeing objects jumping around on the screen.
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>Hilmar.

No, I'd got it working all working with AddObject, but was generating unique names, it didn't occur to me that an array could be used in AddObject - so I changed to CreateObject & .Visible has no effect. I'd only ever used CreateObject for non-display objects before - I just assumed that they could be made visible in the same way.

As for cleanup (re. your reply to Armin) - I thought that was only necessary if CreateObject was used, if AddObject is used then I thought it was automatically taken care of, at least I've never had problems without cleaning up after using AddObject.