Hi Cetin,

It's the system bar. I understand how to handle it ... when it's my turn to play so to speak. I'm wondering how to handle it when the system "uses" it, in fact I'd like to set a "default value" for it in a way. I could manage is with the release method of the form(base), but frankly again, it looks like some kind of overkill.

I guess I'm wanting something that simply is not there.

Thanks anyway.

Kind regards,

Marc

>>I replaced my own statusbar by the system status bar, because I frankly like the look of it and the ability to show CAPS, OVR and NUM settings.
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>>Also I thing that the opportunity to show ad hoc help in texboxes and other controls is a nice addendum as well.
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>>My problem is the default value I'd like to have. It's a concatenation string of all kinds of settings like version, data directory etc. I managed to show it when no form is active, by restoring the info when the (base)form is released, but as long as a form is active, the statusbar is abysmally empty or displaying things I do not want it to display.
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>>The situation is livable but not really satisfactory.
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>>Do I have to make my own statusbar then, or are their tricks to access that space in ways that I do not know yet?
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>>TIA,
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>>Marc
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>Marc,
>Which statusbar is it ? Activex ? If so then it's something like :
>oStatBar.Panels(1).Text = 'blah blah'
>If VFP as far as I remember :
>set message to ....
>And even to keep it empty (suppress displayin table/rec etc) you explicitly set it. ie:
>Set message to ''
>Cetin