Hi!

It is hard to do, but possible. Also the approach described below orks differently than usual StatusBarText property - it displays StatusBarText for control that is under mouse, organizing this way something like a very quick tool tip for controls displayed in the status bar.

Create a timer class in your application, put it on the _Screen at start of the application, and in its Timer event set the status bar text to empty string or to the StatusBarText for current control under mouse. SYS(1270) will get you the control, so you will do somethign like following in the Timer event

loObject = SYS(1270)
if type("m.loObject.StatusBarText") == "C"
    set message to m.loObject.StatusBarText
else
    set message to " "
endif

Set the Timer's Interval property to 100 milliseconds. Even when table's information will appear in the status bar, timer will remove it quickly. The only case it will nto be removed quickly is when you run very long programs that work with data. In such case you will have to use DOEVENTS command to force Timer events firing, or just manually update the status bar text.

You can add StatusBarText property to any class for control you have, and have it displayed by the mouse. You can also use ToolTipText instead of the StatusBarText to display it as a tool tip in the status bar.

HTH.

>Is there an easy way to do that ?
>
>I want to keep the status bar but don't want
>it show table info such as : record: 1/10... eof ...
>
>TIA
>
>max.