Topic: Status Line enhancements (1 of 4), Read 61 times
Conf: VEDIT Suggestions
From: Lowell Dennis
Date: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 07:02 PM

It would be nice if there were a way to add a field or indicator to the status line for user developed macros to use.

For example, a user may have a macro that uses a tagfile to lookup tokens in a program, the status line could be used to indicate whether or not a tagfile is available.

Lowell
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Topic: Re: Status Line enhancements (2 of 4), Read 63 times
Conf: VEDIT Suggestions
From: Ted Green
Date: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 08:44 PM

At 07:02 PM 3/5/2003, you wrote:
>It would be nice if there were a way to add a field or indicator to the status line for user developed macros to use.

Well, I never considered that, but it is a reasonable suggestion. Currently, you can only display a temporary message with the Statline_Message() command.

The next time we work on the status line code, we will try to implement a macro controlled field. Don't hold your breath though.

Ted.

 

Topic: Re: Status Line enhancements (3 of 4), Read 61 times
Conf: VEDIT Suggestions
From: Pauli Lindgren
Date: Friday, March 14, 2003 09:54 AM

Talking about the Statline_Message()command, there is the problem that the command only uses a small section of the status line (the part that normally displays "F1=Help").
You can not write very long messages there.
Meanwhile, most of the statusline is totally unused, especially if you maximize Vedit window.

-- Pauli

 

Topic: Re: Status Line enhancements (4 of 4), Read 62 times
Conf: VEDIT Suggestions
From: Ted Green
Date: Friday, March 14, 2003 10:28 AM

At 09:54 AM 3/14/2003, you wrote:
>Talking about the Statline_Message()command, there is the problem that the command only uses a small section of the status line.

I will consider implementing an option on Statline_Message() to use the entire status line. It might be very easy to implement - the signon message uses the entire status line.

Ted.