>I know, this is not al sunshine in this area, well at least I have no big problems right now with activeX support and VFPs themed controls. I guess if you don't set the fancy GUI to the highest priority you should be fine. This is a problem that has always been there, and you're right from a visual standpoint it is not going to be improved in the near future. Anyways if this is your high priority you would not program in VFP anyways.

Walter,

You might, but maybe not for the G U I. You could use VB for the front end and Foxpro for the business layer (and the data tier if you chose not to use something like SQL).

Renoir