>Thank you Edward and Craig. I already mentioned in my orginal posting, that I would like to avoid yet another ActiveX control. I know FoxPro is doing it internally by dynamically adding and removing panels. I wonder if anyone of you have any idea, how to address status bar object. Just like we address it in MS Status Bar ActiveX control.

You cannot do it with vfp's status bar, it's not accessible. The suggestions made so far are both fine, depending on what you want to do...