>Hi Esteban ---
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>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.

Hi John - I mentioned this in another reply, but in case you didn't see it, there's an Advisor Q/A in 12/98 (p. 20) about creating a mini-window to simulate mixing vfp/activex...kind of an interesting technique...