Hi Mark
I believe the solution to the problem is to modify Form A's Paint event with your own custom one where you test to see if Form A is currently the active form. If Form A *is* the currently active form then you use DODEFAULT() to execute the normal Paint event otherwise do nothing.
HTH
Jos
>I have a grid on form A with a container-based control in one column that is fairly slow to refesh due to it's complexity. However, this is no problem because the browse speed is still acceptable.
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