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Hi everyone.

I have a rather complex layout for forms and containers... see attached.

Whenever the containers had Parent.Width when I initially opened the screen, some of the forms and/or containers had a width of zero when they should be showing because their parent had a proper width so the screen showed up all white. This would be remedied if I hit a toggle button to expand/contract a container or, now, simply trying to scroll a bit make the containers and forms appear.

I checked the width on every container in the hierarchy and I had missed a few, changing them to App.Width solved the problem

It seems like when my app first loads, the App doesn't know anything about Parent until some action happens. This is in Play mode. In preview Parent.Width is sufficient but in Play mode, not so. And when you look or do a hover event to show the width of say, Container11, it's zero even tho it's parent has width. Touch the screen a little (scroll b/c I'm on a laptop) and it magically appears. Again, the problem shows up only in Play mode. I wish I could understand this better. Attached is an image of my perhaps overly complex layout and maybe I should eliminate forms and use containers only but that has its own layout problems and the data cards make it simultaneously more difficult and easier.

Any response to help me understand this better are very welcome. Also if my architecture is overly complex suggestions are welcome as well. Cheers.