>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>Does anybody out there know if there is a way of getting the Menu message text to appear on a custom status bar ie the Microsoft Statusbar control?
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks
>>>>
>>>>You could set the message text to a function on a PRG available through SET PROCEDURE and set the message text to the status bar from there, as well as returning the same string.
>>>>

Thisform.Statusbar1.Panels(1).Text = "Hello!"

>>>>HTH
>>>
>>>I can't seem to get that to work
>>>
>>>If in my menu I set the message to MenuMessage("Select an option") then that function never appears to be run?
>>
>>Is MenuMessage available in a PRG that's been SET PROCEDURE TO?
>>
>>I have a menu that uses this, it works OK. In the message box for the menu option I have something like:
>>

MnuMessage("About")

>>And in the code for the function I have:
>>

Function MnuMessage
>>LParameters tcMsg
>>   Do Case
>>   Case tcMsg = "About"
>>      lcRet = "General Info about this application"
>>   *!* ...etc.
>>   EndCase
>>Return lcRet

>>HTH
>
>From what I can tell it runs the code when the menu is loaded and sets your messages into the menu. My problem is that as I don't have the status bar visible I can't seem to change the text as the mouse moves over the menu option.
>
>Any thoughts?

I think you need to define your menu with code instead of going through the menu designer for this to work.

Do you have the statusbar in each form or in the _screen inside a container?