Simply place a StatusBar on to your form
Project/Components/Microsoft Windows Common Controls
and this beofre each event place text into the statusbar.
eg.
Code:
Public Sub Command1_Click()
StatusBar1.SimpleText = "Opening Text File"
Open "C:\myfile.txt" For Output As #1
   Print #1, Text1.Text
Close #1
StatusBar1.SimpleText = "File Opened"
End Sub
Hope that helps,
D!m