gstatusbar: Constructor of status bar widget

In gWidgets: gWidgets API for Building Toolkit-Independent, Interactive GUIs

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=" "))


## End(Not run)

gWidgets documentation built on April 29, 2020, 9:37 a.m.