Tim,

I suppose that another reaason why ActiveX might be employed, even if the same functionality could be obtained using VFP, is to reduce complexity in the case where a similar VFP control would take so much code as to make possible maintenance problematic.

Jim N

>You would normally want to use activex controls for functionality that the native VFP controls do not provide. If the native VFP controls will do what you need to do, use them.