>>>Eric,
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>>>Where are you populating the list with items? Is it the Form's Init?
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>>Ok. Moving the code to form.GotFocus()(lisaG) cures the problem.
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>>However, I still don't understand how the underpinnings of a form allows the painting of the titlebar and border but not the interior of the form. Seems to me it should be all or nothing.
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>Eric,
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>Where was the code before you moved it? The Gotfocus may not be a good place as it is fired every time the form gets focus. I would do the Populating of the list in the List's Init. Encapsulation means the list is responsible for the list.

The listbox.init() causes the same behavior. That is where I always put code to load a listbox. In form.gotfocus(), I set a flag so the list is only loaded once on creation. I don't like it but I can't have a transparent window popping up every time this form is launched.

What I'm really fishing for here is the reason behind this behavior.