>>Any easy way to do that at the bottom of the screen?.
>
>On the status bar? Here's a quickie basic idea:

Which reminded me of similar tricks of 15 years ago, in some ZX Basic, but then it rolled the text...

* cmessage = 'Hi There!'
cmessage=padr("Hi there!", 40)
for n = 1 to 50
* cmessage = ' ' + cmessage
cmessage = right(cmessage,1)+ left(cmessage,39)
wait window '' time .2
set message to cmessage
endfor

This is actually rolling, not scrolling... but it was nice to remember.