>Yep, you're right, no easy workaround. It appears though, that the bug may be related to SET STATUS and not SET STATUS BAR because I think it's mimicing the behavior of the old status bar with cursor records.
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>What you can do, that appears to work as a kludge, is set StatusBarText in your parent classes for all controls as SPACE(SYSMETRIC(1)/FONTMETRIC(6)) and this will blank the bar. You can then modify as appropriate for specific classes or controls.

Not all controls have statusbartext property. I tried similar workaround (just one space, though), but as I said, it didn't solve the problem completely though reduced it.

Ouch, could not find that little program I used to update all status bar in all base controls. Hopefully I posted it here once.