Peter:

Thanks very much for reply.

You beat me to the punch ... I was just about to post this update.

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For some reason, all 4 borders of my Frame now look fine--i.e. are
etched--at runtime.

But that top border did look hooey before. As I said, it was a single,
un-etched, 2-dimensional gray line.

About the only thing I I've changed since my post is: Before, the
topmost control inside the Frame was a CommandButton whose Default
property was True, so when everyone was disabled it still had thin
black border. I have since toggled it to False.

Plus I've been playing with control positions a little.

Other than that, I have no clue. (Gee, people tell me that all the
time.)

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Of course, when disabled, the Frame's caption is still 2-D gray, not
etched. I guess that must be standard Windows practice.

I think it'd look better if it were etched just like the borders, when
disabled. After all, all other controls' (e.g. command buttons)
captions are etched when disabled.

Anyway, since the top border has the proper etched appearance, the
caption's not being etched isn't that visually disturbing.

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Thanks much again to you Knights of the Web for perennial guidance.

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