Well when I say drag-and-drop I mean the OLE version :-)
for now until I understand this thing I use standard VFP controls:

http://www.cortiel.com/pcs/form1.png

lets look at Command2

oledragmode = 1
oledragover:

LPARAMETERS oDataObject, nEffect, nButton, nShift, nXCoord, nYCoord, nState
nEffect=1

oledropmode=1
olesetdata:

LPARAMETERS oDataObject, eFormat
DO CASE
CASE TRANSFORM(eFormat)='1'
	oDataObject.SetData("American Flag",1)
	
CASE TRANSFORM(eFormat)='Private Format'
	oDataObject.SetData(this.picture,"private format")
	

OTHERWISE

ENDCASE

olestartdrag:

LPARAMETERS oDataObject, nEffect
oDataObject.ClearData
nEffect=1
oDataObject.SetFormat(1)
oDataObject.SetFormat("Private Format")
thisform.OLEDropMode= 1

note: this american flag comes from one of the whitepages I found on this matter, I don't want to mess with the flag at all :-)

My intention is to be able to drag a button from the left sid into the white container control just lie we can do in the IDE on a form


but when I drag the cursor is a circle with a line through it telling me I cannot drop onto the container control

the container has a oledropmode of 1
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>As I said, I think you'd be better off using OLE drag and drop. That said, how's the button configured for dragging?
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>Tamar