Jane-
Heh, heh, heh. I was cruising the UT and the MS newsgroup...and came across your message and a similar one that Arnon Gal-Oz answered. Here's his post:
Your problem is that your form is hidden at the time you try to add the
toolbar to it

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A toolbar that is set to show "in top level form" will appear in the active
form at the time it is initiated
since in your case that is the _screen this is where it appears
you can initiate the toolbar when the form is active, you should also be
able to ACTIVATE the toolbar in your form instead

Arnon

Thomas Hanley <ranch@airmail.net> wrote in message
news:CBCE9BEB21F0C42E.2EEF5DC190AF00C1.56A4826333F63DFC@lp.airnews.net...
> I have created a class library and it contains a custom toolbar. I
> also have a sdi top level form. When I drop the toolbar on my top
> level form it shows up fine at design time, but when I run the form
> the toolbar shows up in the main VFP window (which I have hidden). I
> have the showwindow property set to "in top level form" for the
> toolbar. What am I not doing wrong?
>
> Thank you
> Tom

>I created a toolbar class.  I then want to place this toolbar on an existing form.  I can do that but it doesn't stay.  When I run the form it's not there.  When I open the form the next time, the toolbar is gone.  What do I need to do?
>
>Thanks
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