Status Bar

Discover a class that uses AlphaBlend fading to enhace the status bar.

Class to show tooltips and icons for individual panes and to allow changing of text and background color of individual panes. (The article, demo project, and source code were updated.)

The status bar's panes may contain almost any control you need: buttons, edits, animations, progress bars, and more. Learn to enable panes so you can add or remove them on the fly from the application's status bar.

Showing progress bar in a status bar pane

[Update]This article shows you the source code about making a pop up message window like MSN Messenger.

This simple class CTBalloon which is derived from CWnd can be used to show the tray balloon similiar to the one that appears with MSN messenger.

This simple program code show how to write or remove an icon from the window taskbar and add a tool tip text. It also show how you can define a user message for trap events generate with mouse action (click on the icon).

Use the text pane of the status bar to indicate how to enable disabled menu items when the user moves the cursor over them.

Illustrates how to use the status bar panes to display the current position of the cursor in a CEditView or CRichEditView

OnViewStatusBar message handler that overrides the standard View/Hide functionality so that the application window changes it's height accordingly and preserves the size of the visible client area.

Playing an AVI file in the status bar

Showing Progress Bar/Icon/Arbitrary drawing in a status bar pane

Showing progress bar in a status bar pane (2)

"Ready" prompt replacement

Extended statusbar with bitmap, progress bar and mouse action

Adding a clock to the status bar

Write to status bar using sprintf syntax

Enhanced statusbar class

Show scrolling text in a status bar pane

A UI class for long operation feedback

Showing progress bar in a status bar pane (3)