The status bar displays the currently selected object in designers

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In versions of Visual FoxPro prior to 6.0, there were two ways to determine the currently selected object. You could look at the object selection handles (the six small squares around a text box or other control, for instance), or look at the current object in the Properties Window Object List. Neither of these readily display the object hierarchy of the selected object on a single line.

Visual FoxPro 6.0 and later versions add an additional cue to make it easier to determine the selected object and where it falls in the object hierarchy. When an object is selected, either by clicking the object in the Form or Class Designer window, or selecting it from the Properties Window Object List, the object hierarchy and name are shown.

Form or Class Designer Window

If you are modifying a form, named Form1, which has a container called Container1 with a text box named Text1, the status bar displays the following text:

Form or Report Designer Data Environment Window

If you are modifying a report with a Data Environment holding a cursor called Cursor1, when the table is highlighted in the Data Environment window, the status bar displays the following text: Note In Visual FoxPro 8.0 and Visual FoxPro 9.0, this information does not appear in the status bar when you edit a report.