Rick,

>Oh man you opened up a can of worms with this one <g>...

hey, we haven't had a rop-roarin-convtroversial thread around here in a while *lol*

>Plainly put it sucks and always has. The control doesn't show a proper sizing thumb as it does say in VB. It doesn't work with themes so now we have these cool XP style forms in 8 and a toolbar that stuck in 90's. Yeah, looks matter.

I set my theme on XP to windows classic as soon as I could. *g* Personally the themes are just cpu-cycle and real-estate wasting eye-candy IMHO. My daughter uses this notebook too and she uses themes I can swap logins to do testing with themes on. I just see the IE status bar uses a different look. It must be using a statusbar that is theme aware.

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>The toolbar causes initial sizing problems on VFP forms. The result of which is that you often see a form pop up and the toolbar is blank until you resize. I have several apps where I had to use timers to wait for a second then slightly resize the form just to get the damn statusbar to show correctly.
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>It would be relatively trivial to build a nice toolbar control for VFP that's built in.
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>There are really two issues hear - the behavioral problems (resizing) and the fact that the Statusbar control itself is dated and unlikely to ever be revved again.
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>FWIW, none of the Common Control in MSCOMCTL.OCX are XP aware so all those controls don't follow XP guidelines which means for one that you can't build XP Logo applications if you use these controls...