Can someone tell me why a Label disappears while reading or writing a file? The label's .Visible property is set True at design time and not altered by the program. The label appears before and after the i/o operations, which are lengthy. I set break points immediately after assigning a value to the .Caption property and the label is visible, but when I run the program without break points, the label disappears during i/o.

Although I'm using VB6 Learner's Edition, I'm an experienced programmer, yet I've exhausted my normal techniques to debug this problem.

Help, please.

VBhobbyist