>>About the only way around this that I can think of would be to place the status bar on its own form (with no title bar, etc.) with .AlwaysOnTop = .T. This, of course, would lead to other problems, such as keeping its locations synched with the actual form in use.
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>You just gave me an idea - I wonder if you could put it into a bottom-docked toolbar? Sounds weird, but I'll take a look at it...

Sad (but not surprising) update: can't get the status bar to show in a toolbar at runtime, for unknown reasons. Too bad, it's the right size...