Okay I see. but why are the Progress Text messages in the Text resources not for the SB8 runtime to use?

If I understand you correctly I can use this to stop the service
Code:
      
Progress Dialog: Set Status Text #1 to "#PROG_ACTION47#"
Progress Dialog: Set Status Text #2 to "Spawnerservice"
Stop Service "Spawnerservice"
Progress Dialog: Set Status Text #1 to ""
Progress Dialog: Set Status Text #2 to ""
and this to start the service
Code:
Progress Dialog: Set Status Text #1 to "#PROG_ACTION46#"
Progress Dialog: Set Status Text #2 to "Spawnerservice"
Start Service "Spawnerservice"
Progress Dialog: Set Status Text #1 to ""
Progress Dialog: Set Status Text #2 to ""