>>>Ok this is the thing.
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>>>In my code I add 50 controls in the init() and because the scroll bar was not appearing at design time I did not see the scroll bar at run time.
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>>>The scroll bar must appear at design time otherwise it will not be show at run time.
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>>That appears to be the case. I guess you could add a dummy object in the designer to make the scrollbars appear, and remove that object in the Init. That way you'll at least get your scroll bars.
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>What???
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>You only have to set the Scrollbar property in the Property sheet and VFP takes care of it from there. At least running VFP6 SP4 on NT4 SP6a, it does.
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>I tried several scenarios using a button on a form. In all situations the button was visible in the form designer and the scrollbar was not visible at design time. The Scrollbars property was set to 2-Vertical. Ex.
>1. Add code to the Init of the button to move it off the screen. Results - scollbar appeared
>2. Add code to the Init of the form to move the button off screen. Results - scrollbar appeared
>3. Added a second button with code in the Click event to move the first button off screen. Results - scrollbar appeared when the button moved

Moving an existing object sure seems to work. Adding new ones does not.