Thread: cant display status bar

hi im tryin to create a status bar for my main window , i place the CreateWindow() inside the WM_CREATE: in the window procedure
what im doing wrong?

Code:

//window proc
...
HWND hStatus;
    switch (message)                  /* handle the messages */
    {
        case WM_CREATE:
            hStatus=CreateWindow("msctls_statusbar32", "Ready",WS_CHILD|WS_VISIBLE,0,0,0,0,hwnd,(HMENU)NULL,GetModuleHandle(NULL), NULL);

in cant see the staus bar in the main window
and is the WM_CREATE: of winproc the best place to create the status bar?
thanks for any help