>>>The button's style property is set to zero.
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>>Is that after the form is instantiated? IOW, do you perhaps change this setting while the form is running?
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>>If not, then you might add a straight, of-the-shelf button to form and incrementally adapt the problem buttons' settings and code to the new one til you discover what's different.
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>>Updated: What is specialEffect set to?
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>Nancy,
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>It's an off-the-shelf button control. I made no changes to its default settings.

You don't even have anything in the click? Didn't set the caption? Not that that's the problem, but just want to be sure of what you mean when you say no changes.

>If I resize the form, the button will then show up. Prior to that, it's not visible.

You aren't doing anything to the button at all? If you move the button in the designer to even, say, 0 left, 0 top what happens? Do you see the button in the designer at all? Try changing the size of it, or the caption.