Toolbars can be docked horizonally and veritically. You need only to place the container in a toolbar class. The toolbar will assume the size of the container (width).

just an idea.

>The panes on Office behave like a toolbar as far as docking, but they don't
>take up the usual amount of horizontal space. See this
>image http://marois-consulting.com/project/goal1.jpg
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>In VFP, if I made the pane a toobar and docked itm there would be an empty
>horizontal space running across the upper area.
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>Not quite the same look.
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>>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.
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>>>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.
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>>>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.
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>>>Here's my app before the window is maximized, and after
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>>>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