>Currently (VFP9), it seems unbelievable,
>but in VFP don't exist a baseclass
>that is able to control the Alignment of a Text inside a plain rectangle.

I don't think this is something the product team needs to spend time on. I would think that you could easily write a nice custom class to do this. And it could be something you contribute to the SednaX project Ken and Craig Boyd are coordinating.