gWidgets (version 0.0-54)

gstatusbar: Constructor of status bar widget

Description

A status bar widget is used to send message to the user. A familiar instance is the bottom area of a web browser.

Usage

gstatusbar(text = "", container = NULL, ..., toolkit = guiToolkit())

Arguments

text

Initial text of status bar

container

Optional container to attach widget to. Should be gwindow object

…

Passed to add method of container

toolkit

Which GUI toolkit to use

Details

The status bar simply shows a message in a label, typically at the bottom of a window. The svalue and svalue<- methods can be used to query or set the text. message onto the stack.

Statusbars should be added to the top-level gwindow instance.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
  w <- gwindow("status bar example")
  tbl <- list(quit=list(icon="quit",
    handler = function(...) dispose(w)))
  tb <- gtoolbar(tbl, container=w)
  sb <- gstatusbar("", container=w)
  txt <- gtext("type here", container=w)
  addHandlerChanged(txt, handler=function(h,...)
    svalue(sb) <- paste("You typed",svalue(txt),"in the  box",collapse=" "))

# }