invisible controls over tabControl OCX

Hi everyone,

let's see what happens with this new vb6 exe project:

 - add on the form a tabControl with 2 tabs (no properties modified)

 - on 2nd tab add two commandbutton

 - command1 code:
    command2.visible = not command2.visible

now press F5. It happens that, when you click the 2nd tab, both commndbuttons appear (OK!)... then i click the 1st commandbutton. the 2nd disappears (OK!). BUT, if i go to the 1st tab and back to the 2nd, both commandbuttons appear (WRONG!).

what's the deal? we used this in our configuration form. we have solved it by placing a label and a textbox (the controls that must be hidden) inside a picturebox with no border, and hiding them (not the picturebox). looks like only the first level of child controls is put back to visible after a tab change.

i hope i've been understandable, i'm not english :)

thank you
dany

Let ME decide what's a big deal. Altought you are right in some situations, this is not the case. I'll explain better: we have the configuration form that consists of 19 tabs, with about a total of 300 control (labels, textboxes, comboboxed, checkboxes, frames, pictureboxes). adding 19 picturebox would make it even slower (it is ALREADY slow: actually when i change tab i can see the flickering controls becoming visible one at time, and my machine is not a p3-800mhz...). Then, apart from speed, memory usage will increase (autoredraw = true?). I solved it this way, ok, luckily i needed it just for a couple of label+textboxes.. but this is a workaround! in the end i think this IS a bug. i was just pointing it out.