Hi James,

how are you adding the controls to the form? Programmatically or dropping them on the form at design time? If adding programmatically you may need to set the visible property to .T. (but then again setting focus to them wouldn't work unless they were visible), if dropping them on the form at design time, maybe as a work around you can set focus to them first so they become visible and then set focus to the control you actually want to have focus.

>I have a OLEControl which seems to only be visible once it gets focus.
>
>That is, it's visible if it's first in tab order on the form; or if not, it only becomes visible when I tab to it.
>
>I'm actually having this behavior with two different OLEControls on different forms. Clearly, there's something I don't understand here.
>
>Help!