Kurt,

VFP can indeed create subclasses of ActiveX controls. I think it's one of the few languages that allow this.

create classlib myactivex
create class mytabstrip of myactivex as olecontainer

When the dialog pops up, choose Insert Control, pick the Microsoft TabStrip control

You can set a tab count, and add custom PEMs.

set classlib to myactivex additive
ox = createobject( "form" )
ox.visible = .t.
ox.addobject( "cooltab", "mytabstrip" )
ox.cooltab.visible = .t.
? ox.cooltab.mycustom

There are versioning and deployment issues but they aren't insurmountable.

>You cannot subclass non-native objects in VFP. What you can do is create your own wrapper object based on a custom or session class. Here is an example of a wrapper for the stdDataFormat object.