I have two UltraCombos on a simple form. There are no actions when loading and showing the form, but the Combos cause the controls on the form to flicker while opening the form. When I set the Combos to visible=false in the designer, the form opens without any flickering. So I tried to set them visible in the Load events, but this will also cause the controls to flicker. There is no difference if I try to make them visible in the Form_Shown-Event or even in the forms constructor. The flickering occuers even those Combos are not bound to a datasource. Is there a workaround to minimize flickering to a minimum? Thanks in advance, Stefan