>>Thanks Bill - I kinda worked out a solution by moving the code out of the load event and popping it into a timer - when the timer fires I can call clear events then thisform.release... Thanks for your help
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>No problem. Glad you found your solution. I am kind of curious as to how and why you are using the Timer in this situation. Unless I'm missing something it seems you should be able to accomplish this task w/o a Timer?!?
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>Bill

Sorry - for conciseness (is that a word???) in my original posts - I left out the detail! The form in question is a splash/login form - first it just displays my splash image and I have a timer set to 1000 - when this fires I make visible my buttons and textboxes for the user to put in their log in details - hence the timer...
Hope that answers you question!!! Thanks again Bill for your help...
Chris