yeah it is bad news because there isnt a work-around.

Let's say you want to "skin" an application - that is add some graphics and stuff to all the screens, buttons, etc. Not the most popular thing for a business application, but hey everyone's doing it.... http://www.softshape.com/activeskin/ is a good example.
The problem? Can't do it with VFP. There are 2 reasons why you can't. 1) Unlike EVERY other Visual language (Delphi, VB, VC++ etc etc) VFP's controls on the screens are not really "windows" ...there is no "windows handle" for the controls...thus you cant skin the controls. So that sucks..now say ok just skin the screen itself not the controls on it...NOT! Won't work because the skins gizmo in an ActiveX - and guess what..ALL activeX controls in VFP are ALWAYS on top! ahhh! So this means if you put a skin on the form..then the only thing you can see the skin image! cant see the controls (like textboxes, comboboxes etc) on the from because the skin-activex is on top of all of it....well needless to say that makes the whole thing useless.


>It sounds like bad news, but please clarify. Thanks. Alex
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>>FYI you can't "skin" a VFP app.
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>>>As far as the background of a form just change the picture to some bmp file. A lot of people are using chrome.bmp as thier background color these days. I'm sure you can match whatever background apple is using. With regard to the tabs I saw where someone offered a special activeX control. I don't know what it looked like.
>>>John