Thanks both of you.

The question arose when I wanted to find the control (if there is a 'common' one) that looks like a TreeView but also has check-boxes to allow the user to indicate specific choices. Much as is often found in software options installs or in software allowing selection of specific directories/subdirectories for inclusion/exclusion in some processing.

I'll start googling. I hope I can actually find images to show what they (displayable ones) look like.

cheers

>Hi Jim,
>
>A very few are documented under VFP Help "ActiveX Controls overview". There are pointers to the associated .CHM files. Otherwise, start Googling :-)
>
>>Tools-->Options-->Controls lists lots of ActiveX controls available to me.
>>
>>However, I can't find out how to learn what any of these actually do (can be used for). I picked a few names shown there and looked for them (Index) in MSDN (April 2002) but they simply aren't in the index.
>>
>>Where does one learn:
>>1) What they look like;
>>2) How they can be used and what restrictions they have?
>>
>>thanks