>Hi Nadya,
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>>So there is no way to get rid of it except for specifying statusbar to this combobox, right?
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>One way might be to have a background timer check the value of _VFP.Statusbar and if the value begins with "Opt:", clear it by SET MESSAGE TO ""
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>Malcolm

Too much trouble to work around a bug. Anyway, I almost solved it by giving all my controls a statusbar text...