Jim,

>Don't know why they are bitmapped when MS itself implies that windows controls are 'objects'. Being such would lend them to the possibility of being sub-classed, and it should not be beyond the realm that subclassing at this level would include the possibility to "adjust" the 'boundedness' of a control and to add additional properties, events and methods.

Maybe you're rigth (i cannot check this). Since all software within VSS is written in C++ I would say you're rigth, but these things are certainly not possible within the current versions of VB and ACCESS because they do not support subclassing.

But then again, this should not hold the VFP team to do so. So I agree that this fact lies in its history of being a cross platform product.

As I said before, DOES IT MATTER ? What are the drawbacks besides performance ?

Walter ?