"Piske, Harald" wrote: > Guys ... it's Christmas :-) This group has always been a tremendous source > for solutions.
indeed it has! > I understand there is a solution to the problem that was > posted. I fail to see the point in going back and forth about what might > have been a better idea some time ago. The intent was to explore this quirky behavior in its entirety and determine exactly *why* it behaves the way it does, so that others who look through archives of this group will be able to identify the solution if they have similar but non-identical problems to the one I reported. The solution/workaround *is* straightforward, but only if you know the problem exists, and why it works the way it does. I spent three days trying to work out why my code didn't function, and I want to both warn others about this potential pitfall, as well as understand *why* the behavior exists so that I can avoid meeting it again in the future. As you will notice, I received a response indicating a similar behavior with Bitmap objects in Label controls... a non-identical situation that I can now avoid because I (and others) have been warned... so these conversations are a good thing! Certainly, as an open-source developer myself, have several active mailing lists and bug lists for my larger projects. I find these kinds of conversations *very* helpful as I go about improving my own products, so I am not ashamed to hash-out problems I find with other modules.. not to be cruel, but to be constructive and helpful to the author! I know that I put a hell of a lot of work into my own code, and I want people to find it straightfoward and clear... I think all OS authors want that... > Happy holidays everyone > Hope you had a nice evening in Europe, mine's yet to come Merry Christmas to you all! Mark
