>>Gary,
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>>>I added the code but nothing changed. The debugger showed the only method executed when the class is being created is the init event - show wasn't called.
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>I forgot, here's a quickie workaround (which may or may not break other things...):
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(I'm thinking out "loud" here...menus are one of those areas where I've been perfectly happy to let the framework handle)

Why >should< Show() be firing? We're adding a container via AddObject(), and normally objects must be explicitly made visible when doing this. Where would this be happening? Would this be something specific to menus?