Hi Craig,
> The part about the focus not changing is another good argument for using toolbar panels.
Intuitively, it would seem there would be a way to "scrape" away a toolbar's border, titlebar, and margins using basic Windows API calls applied to a toolbar's hWnd. This would leave us with just a container for the container we place in the toolbar. This would be an awesome GUI component! Unfortunately, my feeble experiments in this area failed to show promise. If wishes were fishes, a borderless toolbar container would one of my top 3 post VFP 9 enhancements.
> Sounds like you are creating a pretty neat UI manager.
I plan on posting some screen shots or maybe even a live demo over the next few weeks.
> You pick things up very fast and find ways to expand on them... both very good qualities in any developer.
Thank you for your kinds words. I'm not sure the "fast" adjective applies to me (those that know me would have a good laugh about that comment), I'm just a stubborn, persistent, cranky ol' b*astard! :)
I hope you continue to post regarding your experiences with VFP 9's dockable forms. I find the concept very compelling, but have doubts about the completeness of implementation in VFP 9.
Malcolm