Eric,

Nope, the form was taking several seconds to pop up, I even increased it to 4000 rows on the insert and AddListItem() and the form doesn't become visible at all until it's all ready. I would be curious though to find out the cause if you ever find it.

>Yes, as a matter of fact, there are two datetime pickers on this form. It doesn't help to remove them. This list takes about 6 seconds to load. Your example above probably happens so fast you may not be able to see the effect even if it was taking place.
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>Jim's suggestion using lockscreen did not have any effect. The only thing that works is to load the list after init.
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>I'll try some other things when I have time but for now I need to move on and live with the gotfocus hack. I don't get paid these days to fool around with a mysterious quirk like this but I'll let you know if a solution reveals itself.