>>>>>>When I put my cursor over the button, the ToolTipText is not showing up? It works on my toolbar, but not
>>>>>>on my form. help..
>>>>>
>>>>>Form.ShowTips=.T.
>>>>
>>>>thanks Edward... that works great!!.. I notice on the FORM the tooltiptext
>>>>times out. I do not want it to timeout...Is there another setting?
>>>>thanks again...
>>>
>>>I have never seen ToolTip timeouted. May be you just moved the mouse? BTW, you can always move mouse over the control using MOUSE command.
>>
>>It does time out on the FORM and on the toolbar..thanks
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>standard windows operating -- teach your users to read faster

thanks Dave.. I would like to ask you another question..
at load time,my main window is half size and grows to fullsize because
I set window.state = 2. Can I have my main window start out as a full size window?