Tried with no luck. Weird thing is with the setfocus event, when used seems to lock my prog with the background of my form and nothing on it, so I think something is a little screwy but not sure what. Thanks Dragan

>>Put this code in the init event of form
>>

>>thisform.olecontrol1.oBJECT.visible=.t.
>>thisform.LockScreen=.t.
>>thisform.olecontrol1.Height=133
>>thisform.olecontrol1.value=0
>>thisform.Refresh
>>thisform.olecontrol1.value=-128
>>thisform.olecontrol1.Height=132
>>thisform.refresh
>>thisform.LockScreen=.f.
>>thisform.Refresh
>>

>>Still no luck. Thanks for any help
>
>I've found what we were using back then... though it was a scrollbar ocx, not a slider - but it should be the same.
>
>We had a visible_assign method for the object which contained the scrollbar.
>So,
>

			.ScrollBarHorizontal.ZOrder( 0 )
>			.ScrollBarHorizontal.UIEnable( .T. )
>			.ScrollBarHorizontal.SetFocus( )
>			.ScrollBarHorizontal.Visible = .T.
>

>(The UIE() was there probably because the container was on a page of a pageframe)
>Don't know which one of these (if any) may help in your case.