I have a form with a status bar. I want to update the text displayed on the status bar from a program. Sometimes this form may not be the active form, as this is my main form with the menu on it.

How do i access the text property of the status bar. I have tried refering to as follows, but this does not work:

frmMain.statusbar1.panel(1).txt = "?????"

I also nned to know how can display text to this status bar from the menu. If i add a message for a particular menu item, it displays on the Fox status bar, but not the one on my main form.

Thanx