>OK... heres a dumb one... can't you turn OFF the scroll bars and either put your won on the form, or turn them on when you do want the user to be able to click on them.

I'm not sure how you'd do that, these are 3D activex graphics. But you could, if determined, probably design your own class of slider in vfp, I guess.

It's evident when you start playing with the Slider that many events do not work correctly in vfp...and that's version 5. Version 6 doesn't even show completely on the form, it's even more incompatible, I think. So maybe building your own isn't a bad idea...