Rick,

Cool, let me give you a thanks from the community!

>I just went through that excercise and I built a status bar control that's XP style with Fox code. It's not much code, it still took quite a while to get the panel sizing down right.
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>FWIW, it's VFP 8 code using collections, which make that code a lot easier than it would have otherwise have been...
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>I'll probably post it once I add the classic Win interface to it...