>>How do I hide messages that would usually appear in the status bar?
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>>I am writing an app that does not use a status bar and am using SET TALK OFF in all kinds of places. Yes, especially in my base form class.
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>>Yet I am still seeing the "Selected n records" message bleed through as certain (private data session) forms popup and I can't seem to hide it!
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>>It appears to me that its coming from the loading of the data environment, but I can't be sure.
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>>Is there any sure fire way of getting rid of all these system messages?
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>>HELP!
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>Tracing it further it appears that I am getting
>'Selected 0 records in ...'
>By virtue of having a view in my data environment. The view by the way has 'NoDataOnLoad' set to .T.
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>And this happens BEFORE my Form.Load. I know it does because I just added a
>WAIT WINDOW "SET TALK is set to " + SET("TALK")
>DODEFAULT()
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>To my Form.Load and the 'Selected...' message is on the screen when the WAIT WINDOW show me that TALK is ON. That is why setting TALK OFF in the LOAD method of my base form is not working.
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>Am I doing something wrong?
>
>Thanx

In the BeforeOpenTables method of your DE, put a SET NOTIFY OFF.