Hi Terry!

First I must answer to your questions. VFP toolbar object can be docked in _SCREEN or in active top-level form depending on ShowWindow property value. However the top-level form must be shown and activated before you create toolbar. This is not good and may cause form flicker or just slower initialization. You also cannot dock toolbar to form which is not top level.

On the other hand, I need to show marks and pictures in dropdown menus. Mscomctl.ocx does not allows this for me. I was thinking during month about this and I even decided to create my own container-based toolbar class, but...
Today I found the way to drop VFP menu in ButtonDropDown event instead of Toolbar's buttonmenu. Waw! Now I can use all features of VFP menus with OCX toolbar, even multilevel or data-based menus, mover, scrolling, etc.
Let me know if you need additional info and code samples. I have no time to prepare and publish such class, but maybe you can update your published example.
It is clear that ">>" button (to show menu with button that didn't fit in toolbar width) can be added to Mscomctl.ocx toolbar. It will be not compatible with Align property other than zero, but who cares? I will make it next week.