This is just a guess, but how about creating a toolbar based on the VFP toolbar baseclass and then putting the ActiveBar ActiveX class in it. Not sure if it'll work and I think the coding for it would be a bit of a hassle but might be worth a try.

Also, VFP6 is almost out. Maybe the GUI of the toolbars are better in this version.

Good Luck

>Hello Cin,
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>>I don't know anything about ActiveBar and can't comment on it directly but my >suggestion would be to create your own toolbar class based on the VFP toolbar >baseclass. A VFP toolbar can never receive focus so your active form will not >lose focus when clicking on the toolbar. HTH
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>Well we just used the FoxPro toolbar and it doesn't give any problems. But we mainly want to use the ActiveBar (ActiveX component) because it looks nicer then the Foxpro toolbar (more like windows 98). So we create a form and then attach the ActiveX toolbar to it. But because we created a form that form gets focused and there for the form which SHOULD be focused looses the focus. And therefor it won't run the correct routines.
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>Got any ideas on how to solve this?
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>Thanks in advance!
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>Greetings,
>Michiel Willems
>Gamma Research Inc.
>Using the account of Koos Veel