>>I am using Visual FoxPro V5.0. Can anyone suggest the best way to make a custom status bar?
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>>I am looking for a Status Bar that will be permanently anchored to the bottom of my FoxPro screen but above the Win95 menu - and refreshes when the Win95 Menu is hidden/visible.
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>>I have tried to created a custom Status Bar as a form without Title Bar and made it the same height as the text boxes. The text boxes contain information relative to my application which is updated as the application runs. I am having a problem locating the bottom of the FoxPro screen. My custom Status Bar seems to 'float' an inch or two over the Win95 Status Bar. It seems that I am not able to get an accurate reading from _screen.Height to correctly position the custom Status Bar.
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>Have you looked at the status bar OCX that ships with VFP?

Dear Craig,

Thank you for your reply to my question about the Status Bar.

Following your suggestion, I did look at the VFP Status Bar OCX. I could see that it create a "box" on the bottom of a form, but I could not work out how to have it independently docked at the base of the _SCREEN.

However, I have gone back to my original plan of a form, one control high (which I can remove the caption bar) and control the positioning through SYSMETRIC() which I was not using previously.

Regards....Rex