>I could not reproduce this on another product and tried to find out the difference between the two. It turned out to be that SET STATUS BAR OFF did enable the bug.
>
>Now of course I want to use a 3rd party statusbar, but cannot because of this obscure bug. Can anyone confirm this bug to happen in their case ?
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>I can confirm that in our case the bug is happening in:
>-VFP8 SP1, VFP9SP1
>-Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 2003 Server
>

You can use ctl32_statusbar: http://www.levelextreme.com/wconnect/wc.dll?2,54,33,29808 as a statusbar replacement, it displays over the native VFP statusbar, that is set to ON.

Carlos