Hi, Well some programs infact use a status bar. Or make a control for it like goldwave. Other do not. Some paint status information in static text boxes at the bottom of the screen. Or some time above it. An example of this is the windows xp cd writing wizard. Hints the read status line. If this command only looked for a status bar half the status information that is read with this command now would not be read. Hth jim grimsby msn: jim.grimsby@xxxxxxx email: jimgrims@xxxxxxxxxxx skype: jim.grimsby -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Yardbird Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 11:52 AM To: JFW List Subject: "Status line" vs. "Status Bar" A knowledgeable friend just corrected my misimpression about this. it's been too long since I read the documentation referring to these screen elements, or seen them, and I'd forgotten that this area at the bottom of a Word or OE screen is more than a line of informative words and numbers. My friend reminds me that, similar to the Task Bar on the Desktop, they, too, contain control buttons that a mouse user could click on to do certain tasks in the program. So I take back what I said. I've heard these referred to as "lines" many times by experienced computer users, blind and sighted alike, and assumed that this is what they were called. Sorry about that. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.12.2/137 - Release Date: 10/16/2005 -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx