matiphas@...8... wrote:
Hi
My only with the status bar, is that long texts are truncated. Pity, as those long texts show the wide possibilities of some rich tools.
On an other hand, a lerger status bar would cause a loss of working space.
I was wondering if having an hotkey (shortcut ?) allowing an temporarly expanded statusbar or the complete display of the statusbar as a tooltip would be a good idea ?
Regards,
Matiphas
Selon Josef Vybiral <w.e.b@...704...>:
I like both of them. Remember, though, that messages are not set directly in the status bar, but are -queued-. So one must consider how such a status item is sent to the queue. And remember that the text is of course not static, but dynamically formatted.
I had an idea that might work, but would be really ugly, so ignore it: Have a pop-down list (similar to the Location bar in Firefox), with the items being prepended to the top of the list. The topmost item is the one displayed on the bar, and would pop down for the entire scrolled list when clicked. If each list cell were a rich-text widget, then the text could be formatted in a much nicer way than on a simple label.
Bob