Hi Esteban ---
I experimented with this and came to the conclusion that it can't be done. What you can do, however, is to put the StatusBar into a Container and then shrink the container so that the contained StatusBar and control can share the same line, but not on top of each other.
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>I need to put a custom control into a Panels of a Status Bar 5.0 OLE Control.
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