>>Not with the default VFP status bar. You can use the ActiveX status bar that ships with VFP.
In adition to what Ed suggested about using a top-level (which works great, incidentally), you will want to put the Activex into a bottom-docked vfp toolbar for it to function properly.
The Anonymous Bureaucrat,
and frankly, quite content not to be
a member of either major US political party.
