I have at last found a kind of solution to the problem in adding all the
conditional controls and making the unwanted controls invisible in
PreRender - this actually prevents them being rendered at all, but not sure
this is the best way of doing it? (I'm still wasting time assigning all the
events etc.)

Simon

"Simon Storr" <sstorr@sdasolutions.com> wrote in message
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> Is it possible to attach events to controls in the PreRender section? I am
> adding controls dynamically - dependent on events on the main form, but
> these controls in turn need their own events. Adding these conditional
> controls in the PreRender causes them to display ok but their events don't
> work :o(. The only way I've found to make the events work is to add the
> controls in PageLoad, but this is before the main form events fire - a
catch
> 22! Is there any way around it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Simon
>
>