Walter,

Thanks for the help. Since posting my question, I have hacked at the problem(stripping off components one by one, using the NOSHOW clause) several times and came to the same conclusion you ultimately did: the culprit is an ActiveX Control that is forcing the form to be visible immediately.

Setting thisform.Left to an offscreen position works, but is very annoying to deal with during development/maintenance. I had already concluded that addobject() was probably the solution. You have pretty much confirmed what I was thinking.

Thanks again for the help.

Joe