Hi Kamal, Edward & Edward!

Thanks for your answers. The topic is start to be clear for me. But before I begin to use toolbar-status, I have 2 addtional question:
1. Isnot there any trick, with I can prevent VFP to write the actual alias and record number into the (original) Statusbar?
2. In the menu, how can I make status messages to my (status)toolbar? (I mean that at normal controls noproblem, I will use GotFocus event to display message, but what I should use at menus?)

TIA

BB

>You may even use a container class or a form class to create your custom status bar class.
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>Kamal
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>>Hi Edward!
>>
>>Thanks your answer! I am not familiar with toolbars.
>>Is it possible, if I position the toolbar to the bottom of _SCREEN, that user cannot move it away?
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>>BB
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>>>>Hi everybody!
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>>>>Does anybody has any suggestion to me, how to add StatusBar ActiveX control to _SCREEN ? (Instead of the original one?)
>>>>My purpose is, to add bitmaps, and to write text in different Fonttypes than the original, besides to use it for the default purpose)
>>>>I have never added nothing to _SCREEN, so I am unfamiliar with it.
>>>>
>>>>TIA
>>>>
>>>>BB
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>>>You can either create VFP Toolbar class (I like it) or separate container class with included StatusBar OCX. Call either new class 'clStatusbar' and then you can use _SCREEN.Addobject('oStatusbar','clStatusbar') to instanciate object from the class into _SCREEN container.