>Have you considered "replacing" the screen with a form with the 'AlwaysOnBottom' property set to .t.? if you set it up right visualy, as far as the user could tell, it would be the screen, w/o the wierd behavior as a container. The user re-sizing the screen could be a problem, but you might be able to get around it by making the form just extend far beyond the bounds of the actual screen - farther than a user could reasonably be expected to re-size the screen to.

I saw this once posted by someone else and have been using it since but you could use it for putting a form on as a background form:

_SCREEN.AddProperty("oForm")

_SCREEN.ADDOBJECT("ScreenForm", "_ScreenForm")
_SCREEN.oForm = NEWOBJECT("FORM")
_SCREEN.oFORM.AlwaysOnBottom = .T.
_SCREEN.oform.BORDERSTYLE = 0
_SCREEN.oForm.TitleBar = 0
_SCREEN.oForm.VISIBLE = .T.

DEFINE CLASS _ScreenForm AS Custom
	oScr = _SCREEN
	
	PROCEDURE oScr.Resize()
		_SCREEN.oForm.HEIGHT = _SCREEN.HEIGHT
		_SCREEN.oForm.WIDTH = _SCREEN.WIDTH
	ENDPROC
ENDDEFINE