Stevel05,
Thanks for the suggestion. I am assuming you mean to try invalidating the programlabel as the designer one works. Unfortunately it did not resolve it. I am using the reflection to get the adjusted height and width after reformatting it with the richtext and multiline resizing so the scrollview and panels are sized right.
Yes this is only the snippets samples of code and I did set the width and size on the addview using pnlOnce.AddView(programlabel,0,0,-2,-2). The reflector does work perfect on the designer one it all fits and displays but I would like to use the customdialog if possible as it creates a nice compact modal pop-up bordered look. I can try to get more code and screen prints of how they differ in the morning.
Thanks, Jim