>Can someone provide a better explanation of the NEGOTIATE clause in the
>DEFINE PAD Command?


From Hacker's Guide™ to Visual FoxPro® 6.0 (Copyright © 1998 By Tamar E. Granor and Ted Roche):

"DEFINE PAD's NEGOTIATE clause controls what happens to a pad when your application works with another application. How the pad behaves for OLE in-place editing is dictated by the PositionInVFP keyword; how it behaves in an active document is determined by the PositionInActiveDoc. The choices are NONE, LEFT, RIGHT and MIDDLE. NONE means the pad doesn't appear in that case. The exact meaning of MIDDLE seems to vary depending on which application is taking over. For active documents, RIGHT means "put the item on the Help menu." Weird behavior, but it is documented that way."