That's the trouble, it's not there in a LabVIEW front panel window!
The status bar that I'm asking about is the strip at the bottom of a "normal"
window where you can display text, icons etc. It belongs to the _window_ not
to the vi.
e.g:
- In Netscape, it's the bar at the bottom where the URL of a link appears
when the mouse is over the hyper-link text, or where "Connected to ...waiting
for reply." appears.
- In Windows explorer, it's' the bar at the bottom that shows how many
objects have been selected.
If the status bar could be controlled from LabVIEW, it would provide a
"standard" place to send text that showed the progress/state of the program,
rather than have to use a front panl text box.
To create a status bar involves a windows call.
see: http:/
/www.zdnet.com/pcmag/issues/1504/pcm00104.htm
This gives you a handle to the status bar "object". Messages are then sent to
the status bar to show/clear text etc.
Hope this clarifies things, thanks for taking an interest ......
John
BOX wrote:
> what status bar ? give an example ...
>
> "John" wrote in message news:3B8F70AA.9C2CD51B@no.email...
> > Has anyone had any success in accessing the Window status bar from
> > LabVIEW (v6.02)? I want to be able to set and clear the text displayed
> > status bar of the vi's parent Window.
> >
> > I know how to do it from VB (via the comctl32.dll etc.) but this needs a
> > handle to the status bar itself and I don't want to go down to this
> > level if the problem's already been solved in LabVIEW.
> >
> > John
> >
