Hi Malcolm.

>I plan on reviewing VFP's TaskPane source code (in XSOURCE.ZIP), but I'm also interested in other approaches. (From what I can tell, the VFP task pane is mostly webbrowser based)

One of the benefits of using HTML for the display is the flexibility in what gets displayed: you can show text in different colors and styles, include graphics, etc., things that are all hard to do using native VFP controls.

Doug