Originally posted by ahara
thanks a lot for the examples Mc Brain....it led me to the solution in the end......I noticed that your example was working, and mine was not....pasted your code into my project - again it failed.....after some time (and a few highly descriptive curses), I finally got it to work by moving the code from form_load to form_activate....don't ask me why this makes a difference - I'm just grateful to have it working. Thanks a bunch!!
I've no idea. It might be because of the visible status of the objects. In the Load event, the form, and the objects are not visible (unless you force it). Maybe, that's the reason... but, I'm just guessing.