> No, shapes cannot provide good covering of other controls. Only putting control into container does this well. This does not work, however, for some ActiveX controls, for example, TeeChart control will always be shown completely despite any effors to cut off it (it also shown always despite page in pageframe with such object is inactive).
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What problems are you referring to?
If you run this sample you can see that there are no any problems with the listbox covered with a shape.
ActiveX controls is another story, they are always on top as they are separate windows.

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DEFINE CLASS form1 AS form


	DoCreate = .T.
	Caption = "Form1"
	Name = "Form1"


	ADD OBJECT list1 AS listbox WITH ;
		RowSourceType = 1, ;
		RowSource = "one,two,three,four,five", ;
		Height = 181, ;
		Left = 96, ;
		Top = 48, ;
		Width = 157, ;
		Name = "List1"


	ADD OBJECT shape1 AS shape WITH ;
		Top = 36, ;
		Left = 235, ;
		Height = 205, ;
		Width = 37, ;
		BorderStyle = 0, ;
		Name = "Shape1"


ENDDEFINE
*
*-- EndDefine: form1
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