Base the pane on the Toolbar class instead of a container or form class. This will allow you to dock the pane, other forms will respect it territory.

>If you have Office 2003, then you have seen the pane that appears to the
>right of the Document/Workbook/Project, ect. I am designing a similar approach.
>
>My pane is a container added to _Screen at startup. Problem is, when windows are
>then opened, it's possible to maximize the window over the pane.
>
>Here's my app before the window is maximized, and after
>
>In VFP, how do you keep a window from maximizing over the pane?
>
>Here's 2 shots of Excel doing what I want:
>before
>after

Greg Reichert