>>>>>>>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?
>
>The statusbar is part of the main screen.
>
>Is your code really firing when you highlight a menu option as mine definatly wasn't? (I'm trying it just with a wait window nowait and nothing is happening!)

Well, I was just testing with a statusbar and indeed looks like a difficult task.
The way I am using it in this menu is to show the logged-on userid along with the message, which does work because the username is known at start-up.

Sorry to give you false hopes there. But you can probably work something out with the _VFP.Statusbar property as suggested in the other reply.