GtkStatusbar: GtkStatusbar

Description

Report messages of minor importance to the user

Arguments

Methods and Functions

gtkStatusbarNew(show = TRUE) gtkStatusbarGetContextId(object, context.description) gtkStatusbarPush(object, context.id, text) gtkStatusbarPop(object, context.id) gtkStatusbarRemove(object, context.id, message.id) gtkStatusbarSetHasResizeGrip(object, setting) gtkStatusbarGetHasResizeGrip(object) gtkStatusbar(show = TRUE)

Hierarchy

\link{GObject} +----\link{GtkObject} +----\link{GtkWidget} +----\link{GtkContainer} +----\link{GtkBox} +----\link{GtkHBox} +----GtkStatusbar

Interfaces

GtkStatusbar implements AtkImplementorIface.

Detailed Description

A GtkStatusbar is usually placed along the bottom of an application's main GtkWindow. It may provide a regular commentary of the application's status (as is usually the case in a web browser, for example), or may be used to simply output a message when the status changes, (when an upload is complete in an FTP client, for example). It may also have a resize grip (a triangular area in the lower right corner) which can be clicked on to resize the window containing the statusbar. Status bars in Gtk+ maintain a stack of messages. The message at the top of the each bar's stack is the one that will currently be displayed. Any messages added to a statusbar's stack must specify a context_id that is used to uniquely identify the source of a message. This context_id can be generated by gtkStatusbarGetContextId, given a message and the statusbar that it will be added to. Note that messages are stored in a stack, and when choosing which message to display, the stack structure is adhered to, regardless of the context identifier of a message. Status bars are created using gtkStatusbarNew. Messages are added to the bar's stack with gtkStatusbarPush. The message at the top of the stack can be removed using gtkStatusbarPop. A message can be removed from anywhere in the stack if its message_id was recorded at the time it was added. This is done using gtkStatusbarRemove.

Convenient Construction

gtkStatusbar is the equivalent of gtkStatusbarNew.

References

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkStatusbar.html