Jack,

You cannot have your cake and eat it too. If you want every object in existance when the form shows you have to wait for them to be created. If your form can be divided into pages of a pageframe, then you can use delayed instantiation by only populating the visible page on form load and populating the others as they are first brought into view.

Another possibility is to run your form on application start up but leave it Visible .F. until you want to show it, then Visible .T. and when the user leaves the form change visisble back to .F. again. This will move the delay to the application load and not after choosing the form.