>The status bar control fits well on the form. Is there a way to make it work on _screen as well? Or the best is to define a form having the same height as the status bar and display that form on a permanent base in the application.

I remember at one of the sessions about ActiveX controls, that there was a 'status bar' control where you could put stuff in the 'panels' of the status bar. Maybe you could drop a progress bar ActiveX control on the status bar control. The controls should be on the DevCon CD.

HTH