Hmm,

if you put

SET CONSOLE OFF
SET ECHO OFF
SET NOTIFY OFF
SET NOTIFY CURSOR OFF
SET TALK OFF
SET MESSAGE TO

in the load event of your form, no message will show up other than statusbartext of controls. But I still didn't get it quite right, what you want. The combobox should display nothing in the status bar, but then again sometimes it should show some message you set in the statusbartext property?

Why don't you set the statusbartext property empty, or did you? And then use the message event to decide dynamically at runtime what message to show.

Bye, Olaf.