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A Statusbar for your Windows application
How to add a statusbar to a window.
Issue: 2.5 (May/June 2004)
Author: Christian Schmitz
Author Bio: Christian Schmitz is the creator of the Monkeybread Software REALbasic Plugins.
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Article Length (in bytes): 10,665
Starting Page Number: 42
RBD Number: 2521
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2521.sit Updated: Friday, May 14, 2004 at 10:01 AM
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How do we add a statusbar to a window?
This article will explain how to make a nice class for a statusbar in REALbasic. Inside the class, all the declares will handle the low level functions calls and give you, as the user of this class, a nice interface to quickly implement a statusbar inside any REALbasic window.
Just launch REALbasic with a new project and create a new class. Call it "Statusbar". The first part of the article will add all the methods to this class and the second part will show how to use it.
Before we start adding methods, just create a new property, "handle as integer", inside the class. This property will store the ID of the statusbar which we get from the operating system.
Adding methods for the statusbar class
Initialization
On application launch, the Common Dialog DLL must be initialized so it can load all needed resources for the statusbar. It is no problem to call the initialization method more than once, but it is needed the first time you use the statusbar control.
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