yeah, i always use the frame child thingy to - mostly because I always end up moving and adjusting and tweaking the form afterwards, its a whole lot easier to just re-position the frame, then have to re-calculate all the child controls as well. here's the picturebox version of the script. it would simulate (pretty closely) how a dotnet pane object would behave (except for the etched border and caption, which isn't there) - but you could draw your own if you wanted ...

HEY Wiz - How about getting a little splash of color in those forms of yours, eh ? I always get much high praise from Jochen for my splendid use of color - right J ?

code:
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$frmMain = CreateObject("Kixtart.Form")
$frmMain.Size = 400,200
$frmMain.SysMenu = 0
$frmMain.Text = "Welcome to the @DOMAIN Domain"
$frmMain.Center
$frmMain.BackColor = MediumAquaMarine
 
$fraStatus = $frmMain.PictureBox
$fraStatus.BackColor = IndianRed
$fraStatus.Location = 10,10
$fraStatus.Right = $frmMain.ClientWidth - 10
$fraStatus.Bottom = 0.70 * $frmMain.ClientHeight - 10
$fraStatus.Text = " Progress "
 
$prgStatus = $fraStatus.ProgressBar
$prgStatus.BackColor = Khaki
$prgStatus.ForeColor = $frmMain.BackColor
$prgStatus.BorderStyle = 2
$prgStatus.Size = 260, 17
$prgStatus.Center
$prgStatus.Style = 1
$prgStatus.Top = 40
 
$btnDo = $frmMain.Button
$btnDo.Text = "Do"
$btnDo.OnClick = "btnDo_Click"
$btnDo.Center
$btnDo.Top = $fraStatus.Bottom + 10
 
Function btnDo_Click
 $prgStatus.Visible = Not $prgStatus.Visible
 If $prgStatus.Visible
  For $i = 0 to $prgStatus.Max
   $prgStatus.Value = $i
   Sleep 0.010
  Next
  $prgStatus.Value = 0
 EndIf
EndFunction
 
$frmMain.Center
$frmMain.Show
While $frmMain.Visible
 $=Execute($frmMain.DoEvents)
Loop