>Hi Grady
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>>It has to do with the pen setting. See VFP help for more.
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>I did causally look at the help file, but in any case I was not able to find a huge difference when changing this setting to the icons and stuff on the form when run, atleast nothing major that would catch a users eye when rendered under different drawmodes.
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>Thanks.

Drawmode does not have anything to do with drawing or redrawing a form. If you want to use your mouse to draw a line on that form then you would be in correct area for using drawmode/pens/line thickness etcetera.