Hi Peter,

Any object added on the fly has Visible=.F. so you can set it's properties and than make it visible.

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>OK back to basics.
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>LOCAL oForm as Form
>SET CLASSLIB TO 'c:\vapps\vcpr3\modules\cbogrid.vcx' ADDITIVE
>oform=CREATEOBJECT('Form')
>oform.AddObject('acbogrid1','acbogrid')
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>oform.Show(1)
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>the form shows but the control is not visible :-)
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>what am I doing wrong???
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>I feel very dumb today
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>Peter