>Walter,
>
>It appears I may have bingoed too soon. The form still flashes annoyingly on the screen before it disappears IF there are a large # of compononents.
>
>Any other ideas?
>
>Joe

Well if you use a form object instead of DO FORM then it will definitely be invisible until you issue show() - unless something in the init of your form explicitly diplays the form.

ie. loForm = CREATEOBJECT("myformclass") *-- form isn't visible
loForm.DoStuff() *-- Still not visible
loForm.Show() *-- Now visible

If this is what you are doing (I'm not sure from reading the thread) and it is diplaying as soon as you create the form then you have to be explicitly showing the form in your code somewhere.

Cheers,
Jamie