Latest Status Bar Articles

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

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.

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.)

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 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).