Hi Joseph,

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>Thank for the reply!
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>The problem that i'am having is that it seems that when you make an EXE from your application, the foxpro status bar is no longer available in its natural state and the Microsoft ActiveX Status Bar control now has to be used.

Call me thick here, but I'm not sure of what you mean by "...available in its natural state". The VFP status bar, for example, may not show the currently opened table if the form is using a private datasession. This understandable since the datasession is scoped to the form. If you could give me a bit of clarification here it might help.

>This is probably why the SBT Pro 5.0 accounting system still uses a application type of enviroment rather then an EXE, (although the beginning program starts with an exe about 28k big.) Probably for blow out termination reasons.
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>My question is, if i have to use the activeX control how do i make it look like the VFP status bar. Do i need to drop several on my form of different sizes to mimic the window or container look of VFP. How do i address the control to show what i want the end user to see.
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If you right click the control, and select the Panels tab, you'll be able to add sections to the status bar. Using the Style property you can specify whether it's just text, caps lock, num lock, time, date, etc.

hth,