Olaf,

I believe these are the settings we're using. However, from time to time I see a message in the status bar like "opt. 5/10" if I have a combobox on the form. I'm discussing this problem in depth in Re: Minor but important request Thread #1063768 Message #1066154

I can not get rid of these messages completely and I tried quite hard.

>Hmm,
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>if you put
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>SET CONSOLE OFF
>SET ECHO OFF
>SET NOTIFY OFF
>SET NOTIFY CURSOR OFF
>SET TALK OFF
>SET MESSAGE TO
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>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?
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>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.
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>Bye, Olaf.