I have code that I have been using with b4A for years and it has always worked fine. Recently compile has been crashing at the Activity.LoadLayout( line with the following debug message "Object should first be initialized (Imageview)". This appears to be random as it happens with only some of the .BAL files and it appears to be the problem. It does not reference image files that do not exist, my first guess. I have removed the images and put them back in as suggested by Erel in one post this made no difference. I wonder whether the .BAL file has become corrupt and if so why? The last one this happened to has one that I have been using for a couple of years, now it suddenly does not work. I made a fresh designer .BAL and added the objects needed for the code and it works fine. Once I added images to it, it once again failed to compile. It might be easy to blame my images or my code however before this started happening the project compiled perfectly just the day before.