>>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.
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>Maybe someone will have a brilliant way to poke the window, but until then...:)
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>The easy answer would be: Does he really want to spend the budget?
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>The customer-friendly answer is:
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>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.
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>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).
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>It's a fairly sustantive bit of work and if you bid it for him, he might decide resources could be better spent elsewhere.
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>In the meantime, post this wish to foxwish@microsoft.com.


Oops, was going to suggest the same approach :)