org.gnu.gtk
Class StatusBar

java.lang.Object
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  +--org.gnu.glib.GObject
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        +--org.gnu.gtk.GtkObject
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              +--org.gnu.gtk.Widget
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                    +--org.gnu.gtk.Container
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                          +--org.gnu.gtk.Box
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                                +--org.gnu.gtk.HBox
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                                      +--org.gnu.gtk.StatusBar

public class StatusBar
extends HBox

A Statusbar is usually placed along the bottom of an application's main Window. 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 contextID that is used to uniquely identify the source of a message. This contextID can be generated by getContextID(String), given a message. 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.

Messages are added to the bar's stack with push(int,String).

The message at the top of the stack can be removed using pop(int). A message can be removed from anywhere in the stack if it's messageID was recorded at the time it was added. This is done using remove(int, int).


Constructor Summary
StatusBar()
          Creates a new StatusBar Widget
StatusBar(int handle)
          Creates a new StatusBar from a handle to native resources.
 
Method Summary
 int getContextID(java.lang.String description)
          Returns a new context identifier, given a description of the actual context.
 boolean getHasResizeGrip()
          Returns whether the statusbar has a resize grip.
static Type getType()
          Retrieve the runtime type used by the GLib library.
 void pop(int contextID)
          Removes the message at the top of the statusbar's stack.
 int push(int contextID, java.lang.String text)
          Pushes a new message onto a statusbar's stack.
 void remove(int contextID, int messageID)
          Forces the removal of a message from a statusbar's stack.
 void setHasResizeGrip(boolean setting)
          Sets whether the statusbar has a resize grip.
 
Methods inherited from class org.gnu.gtk.Box
getHomogeneous, getSpacing, packEnd, packEnd, packStart, packStart, reorderChild, setHomogeneous, setSpacing
 
Methods inherited from class org.gnu.gtk.Container
add, addListener, getBorderWidth, getEventListenerClass, getEventType, getResizeMode, remove, removeListener, resizeChildren, setBorderWidth, setResizeMode
 
Methods inherited from class org.gnu.gtk.Widget
activate, addListener, addListener, addListener, addListener, addListener, addListener, createContext, createLayout, destroy, draw, drawArea, drawArea, getAccessible, getColormap, getContext, getModifierStyle, getName, getParent, getParentWindow, getPointer, getSensitive, getStyle, getToplevel, grabDefault, grabFocus, hasFocus, hide, hideAll, intersect, isAncestor, makeWidget, modifyStyle, popColormap, pushColormap, realize, removeListener, removeListener, removeListener, removeListener, removeListener, removeListener, reparent, setBackgroundColor, setBaseColor, setColormap, setDoubleBuffered, setDragDestination, setDragSource, setFont, setForegroundColor, setMinimumSize, setName, setNoDragDestination, setNoDragSource, setSensitive, setTextColor, shapeCombineMask, show, showAll
 
Methods inherited from class org.gnu.glib.GObject
addEventHandler, addEventHandler, addEventHandler, addEventHandler, addEventHandler, addEventHandler, equals, getData, getHandle, removeEventHandler, setData
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait
 

Constructor Detail

StatusBar

public StatusBar()
Creates a new StatusBar Widget


StatusBar

public StatusBar(int handle)
Creates a new StatusBar from a handle to native resources. This should only be used internally by the Java-Gnome packages.

Method Detail

getContextID

public int getContextID(java.lang.String description)
Returns a new context identifier, given a description of the actual context.

Parameters:
description - textual description of what context the new message is being used in.
See Also:
StatusBar

push

public int push(int contextID,
                java.lang.String text)
Pushes a new message onto a statusbar's stack.

Parameters:
contextID - The message's context id, as returned by getContextID(String)
text - The message to add to the statusbar.
Returns:
The message's new message id for use with remove(int, int)

pop

public void pop(int contextID)
Removes the message at the top of the statusbar's stack.

Parameters:
contextID - a context identifier.

remove

public void remove(int contextID,
                   int messageID)
Forces the removal of a message from a statusbar's stack. The exact contextID and messageID must be specified.

Parameters:
contextID - A context identifier.
messageID - A message identifier, as returned by push(int, String).

setHasResizeGrip

public void setHasResizeGrip(boolean setting)
Sets whether the statusbar has a resize grip. TRUE by default.

Parameters:
setting - TRUE to have a resize grip.

getHasResizeGrip

public boolean getHasResizeGrip()
Returns whether the statusbar has a resize grip.

Returns:
TRUE if the statusbar has a resize grip.

getType

public static Type getType()
Retrieve the runtime type used by the GLib library.


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