>OK, perhaps I need one less drink to understand the problem. I see the "stupid message" but nothing else and I'd expect to see that with this code. What am I missing?
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Select an option and then click on the button. Close the form and also see the status bar text. You can also remove the status bar and then you'll see this message every time you select an option.

My workarounds were to put empty (ope space) status bars for all base controls. However, this didn't solve the problem completely and the message still showed up.