.NET Windows Forms in a Nutshell

Name

StatusBar

Synopsis

This Control can be docked at the bottom of a form to display either a simple Text string, or a number of StatusBarPanel objects.

Initially, the status bar will not contain any panels, and text will be displayed. You can Add() one or more StatusBarPanel objects to the Panels property and enable the ShowPanels property, and it will display the panels instead, aligned from left to right.

For resizable containers, you can optionally display a SizingGrip in addition to the basic imagery.

Note that right-to-left reading forms will continue to display the panels on the left and the grippy on the right, regardless of the setting.

You can customize the rendering of the panels by binding to the DrawItem event. Any StatusBarPanel that is enabled for owner draw will cause the StatusBar to raise this event. See StatusBarDrawItemEventArgs for more information.

public class StatusBar : Control {

// Public Constructors

   public StatusBar();

// Public Instance Properties

   public override Color BackColor{set; get; }

// overrides Control

   public override Image BackgroundImage{set; get; }

// overrides Control

   public override DockStyle Dock{set; get; }

// overrides Control

   public override Font Font{set; get; }

// overrides Control

   public override Color ForeColor{set; get; }

// overrides Control

   public ImeMode ImeMode{set; get; }

// overrides Control

   public StatusBarPanelCollection Panels{get; }

   public bool ShowPanels{set; get; }

   public bool SizingGrip{set; get; }

   public bool TabStop