>The first question is of course, why would anyone want or care to see a different color of the status bar message text ??? The answer is the client requested it and really wants it.
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>This is in VFP 6.0 and I have tried everything and have done nothing but killed a lot of time.
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>Any ideas on this strange request would be greatly appreciated.

Maybe someone will have a brilliant way to poke the window, but until then...:)

The easy answer would be: Does he really want to spend the budget?

The customer-friendly answer is:

Use a toplevel form as your foxpro desktop instead of _screen.
Set statusbar off
Create your own status bar text by using a textbox on the toplevel form.
Put a box shape on the form to mimic the status bar.

Then, in the gotfocus of your subclassed controls (combos, textboxes, etc), set the text value of the MyStatusBarText to the control's statusbartext (which would be set in specific subclasses).

It's a fairly sustantive bit of work and if you bid it for him, he might decide resources could be better spent elsewhere.

In the meantime, post this wish to foxwish@microsoft.com.