>When designing forms what are the standard property settings that will give you good performance throughout the program?

everyone will have different opinions on this one...

we need to make the form size < 640 * 480 (work for ppl w/ older computers and monitors). regular forms are resizable and movable. forms that are modal can be moved but not (usually) resized. usually use std colors because 5.0 recognizes the user's color setup and uses it for background, title bars, buttons, etc.

as far as performance goes, forms with many controls take longer to load. we've used base forms w/ generic info. if user wants more info, clicking on a button brings up pageframes loaded w/ details. used to load this w/ the form and keep it invisible, but took a long time to load, so we saved this part as a class...