Agnes,
Yes AFAIK changing Zorder affects instantiation order.
Cetin

>Hi Cetin,
>
>You are right that dealing with problems like this in an objects INIT is no good idea.
>
>But I have no idea what "send to back/front" you mean. The only "send to back/front" I know deals with ZOrder. Does this realy change the order of creating objects at runtime?
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>Agnes
>
>
>
>>>I had to add a class (optiongroup) to a form.
>>>
>>>Another class (combo) init relies on the optiongroup already being initialized.
>>>
>>>How can I change the order of things being initialized in the form designer?
>>>
>>>TIA
>>
>>Peter,
>>You might change that by 'send to back/front'. However instead of trusting it (and later form might be touched) I generally move their custom init code to form init.
>>Cetin