>>Thanks to all for the responses. It appears that the correct answer is that the max [OBJECT].left can be is < 2*ScreenWidth. This is a bummer, because I can't bump the users' screen res (already at 1024x800) and now I don't know what to do. In this case, the user actually "places" the objects on the form in a design-mode and I'm loathe to tell them they can't make their form as wide as they want because it's a form representation of a physical environment.
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>>Any suggestions for a work-around? Is this "bug" being "fixed"?
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>>-Arne
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>Arne, what about leaving those scrollbars as they are and just create your own. It's really not too difficult.

Thanks Peter,

the problem is that in this case the form is *very* wide with literally hundreds of objects (in the failing case anyway). I'm worried about the time to re-draw the screen every time the user clicks move RIGHT on a scroll-bar I create. Although, I suppose that I could use a "jump one screen right/left" approach (instead of a small-increment scroll) which would only require a re-draw "relatively" infrequently... Still, it would be sorta ugly.

Is MS planning on fixing this? Has it been fixed in 7.0? Or is it a more serious design limitation? FWIW, VB does not have this limitation (argh!).

-Arne