>Hello guys,
>Is there a way to turn off the status bar, but still have
>the messages displayed in another place, like the small
>window that shows when you say :
>WAIT "Hello" WINDOW NOWAIT
>I don't like how the status bar looks in Win95, but I like
>to know what the system is doing. In example, all my
>SQL-Statements I have it sorrounded with SET TALK ON and
>SET TALK OFF, without the status bar this will screw up my
>screens, Is there a way to redirect the output of
>the status bar without going through all the code.
>
>=THIS.thanks("in advance")

see the VFP Help on "Set Talk" What I have done in the past is define a dummy window that is never shown and "Set Talk Window DummyWindow" This way I do not use the status bar, but with set talk on I still get the SQL progress bar but all other output gets redirected to the dummy (unseen) window.