This is how all containers work in VFP. Actually, I believe they are adding a "feature" in VFP 7 where you can CTRL + Left Click to do the same thing.
>>Terry,
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>>Right click the container... select Edit... then drop your controls.
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>>>I have a dumb one. I never tried it until now but how do you drop objects from the Form Controls box into a container object placed on a form. When I do it it keeps placing the objects on the form instead of in the selected container object :(
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance
>>>Terry
>Thanks Doug
>You work with something for years and then hit something you haven't done and bang you feel like you just got the package. Strange method for
>doing this though. Any good reason for doing it differently for containers?
>Terry
Doug Stalter
"According to the proverb, the best things are the most difficult." -Plutarch