Hi Peter,

Try one of these:

ContainerReference.Left = ContainerReference.Left
&& OR
ContainerReference.Move( ContainerReference.Left)

This will cause repainting of the container object.

HTH

>Guess what ...
>Somewhere deep down in the code of this class, I found this :
>

>*** Caused by a bug in VFP, the change to the SpecialEffect in the
>*** Container on the toolbar won't show. Btw, it's just that, and all
>*** of the other dynamic stuff just shows. When a Show() is applied,
>*** the SpecialEffct setting does show.
>*** Because I found the toolbar flickering because of this (at the moving
>*** of the mouse over the buttons), I came to the "solution" of applying
>*** a LockScreen is .F. Though note : it WAS already .F.
>
>*THISFORM.Show()             && No good. Flickers.
>THISFORM.LockScreen = .F.    && THISFORM is the Toolbar.
>

>
>And today it appeared that this beuatiful solution didn't help anymore.
>IOW, in VFP7 this doesn't help and in VFP5 it did.
>But, what does help now, is preceeding the LockScreen = .F. with a
>LockScreen = .T.
>Sadly a slight flicker is visible, though not as much as with the Show().
>
>Note that when LockScreen is set to .T. explicitly, the then overlapping
>of another Win-task (see below in the original message) behaves very
>different. Hence, It's not some LockScreen status causing it, but just the
>special making it re-live.
>In between I tried all other means upon the individual objects in the
>container, and really nothing helped (no draw() etc.). Making the object
>invisible helped though, for the "buttons" to the right of the one made
>invisible. This is because from that point on the toolbar had to be
>repainted. So that lead me to the comment of 09/23/2000 above.
>
>Cheers.
>Peter
>
>>I am not sure if it is to be described as in the title, but here is the weird thing :
>>
>>I have buttons on a toolbar, consisting of
>>

>>Container
>>  Container
>>    Label
>>    Label
>>

>>Now, I can't get the SpecialEffect (=0) at the top level container to work from within method code (it's 2 (flat) originally). That is, not from within any of the objects in this hierarchy, not even the top level container itself.
>>
>>I already saw that it needs "some" trigger, because if I, for instance, let the .SpecialEffect = 0 preceede by a .BackColor = xxx, sometimes it works. It doesn't matter whether the original trigger is a MouseMove (as it was designed), a MouseEnter, a Click, ... nothing works. But :
>>
>>It works perfectly alright in VFP5, and after some hours of getting dizzy I found this :
>>
>>When I, AFTER applying the SpecialEffect = 0, let the button overlap with the form of another Win-task, and remove it again (say alt-tab), the risen button shows. But worse : it only shows for that part the other task overlapped it !
>>
>>Hence, it is a refresh/paint/lockscreen/whatever graphical issue, and even knowing this, I can't get it to work.
>>Unless you have the idea what I can do to solve this anomaly, there is something seriously wrong here.
>>
>>Thanks of any possible help !
>>Peter