How to add a status bar?

[samkud]

Hi evrerybody,

Can anyone tell me how to add a status bar to the form?

Regards,

Samir.

[peet]

Right click u'r VB toolbox.
Select Components... from the menu that appear
In the components list, browse down until u find Microsoft Windows Common Controls X.X
Make sure it is selected, click ok

new tools will be available in the toolbox. one of the is a statusbar component.

[Rojasree]

in the project menu...go to components and add microsoft windows common controls...atlast say ok..
u will get those on ur IDE..

[samkud]

Hi Peet,

Thanx for the solution to my problem. I did as u said. But dow doi show the text in the status bar. And also how can I show an icon in the status bar?

Regards,

Samir.

[peet]

to show text, try this

Private Sub Command1_Click()
    Me.StatusBar1.Panels(1).Text = "Test"
End Sub

icons I don't know ... sorry.

[peet]

ok, never used it before, but it wasn't to hard afterall.. to add picture u can simply do this :

Private Sub Command1_Click()
    Me.StatusBar1.Panels(1).Picture = LoadPicture("D:\data\Graphics\ICONS\ico_info.ico")
    Me.StatusBar1.Panels(1).Text = "Test"
End Sub

also, if u want to set these things during design time, u can do so by right clicking the status bar, and the choose properties.

[samkud]

Thank u Rojashree and Peet.

[peet]

samkud, we did the last post at the same time... just making sure u saw the loading picture sample

[samkud]

Thanx once again peet. hey are u from India. CAn i have ur email id in case of any difficulty.

Regards

Samir

[Rojasree]

u may do like this to get text....
selectstr the staus bar 'style' property to 1-sbrsample and whatever the text u want that place in the 'simpletext' propertyof the statusbar.

[samkud]

Thanx Rojasree. That tip u gave worked.