>>Vcevo horoshevo!
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> This is how we pronounce it, it should be written "Vsego horoshego" :)

Strange. I know it's a "g" in Cyrillic, but it's pronounced as a "v" when not starting a word (like a military general), so I would have thought it would be written in the English alphabet as "v".

> Dobryj den', John! :)
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> So, if I understand you correctly, I should change mousecursor by myself, right? Because I already took Bruce advice and found, that if I wait 2-3 sec., cursor becomes the hourglass. So, I comment all the code of changing cursor.

I would for big queries or other stuff likes calls to COM objects. Basically, do whatever works for you. Best judgement.

>Another annoying problem, that I found (buggy day today, isn't it? :)), that when my form shows up, I see something like CurZip record 1(800) in the StatusBar... And even if I hold mouse on the objects, which have StatusBarText property, nothing changes. ToolTipText is displayed correctly, though.

Can't help you there. I never use the status bar because of that behavior to show the cursor and record count when not otherwise engaged.