Implementing status bar functionality in Swing

How can I implement the functionality
of status bar in my application,
I did't find any class for that purpose in Swing
like say CStatusBar in MFC.

Nevermind, I misunderstood what you were looking for.
Use the border layout for the panel of the JFrame, and on the South area create another panel and customize it as you see fit. Then use a mouselistener and actionlisteners to change what the bar says and does...

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Hi everybody,
My problem is that i want to display a status bar, using Java Swings. In this regard i am facing somwe difficulty, and i would be really thankful to those, who in some way can help me.
thanks

Create a Static JLabel in the main application constructor and add it to the South position of your main window.
Now set the text dynamically whereever u want to show a status message to this static label.
I hope this can solve your problem

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I think you can do that with Java to JavaScript communication.
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The Status Bar was removed in an earlier version of Firefox and replaced with the Add-on Bar.
*See --> https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/common-questions-after-updating-firefox#w_what-happened-to-the-status-bar
*See --> https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/what-happened-status-bar
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You may need to update some plug-ins. Check your plug-ins and update as necessary:
*Plug-in check: https://www-trunk.stage.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/
*Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in: [https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Using%20the%20Shockwave%20plugin%20with%20Firefox#w_installing-shockwave Installing ('''''or Updating''''') the Shockwave plugin with Firefox]
*Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape: [https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Using%20the%20Adobe%20Reader%20plugin%20with%20Firefox#w_installing-and-updating-adobe-reader Installing/Updating Adobe Reader in Firefox]
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to get back your status bar use this extension
http://techdows.com/2010/10/bring-back-status-bar-functionality-to-add-on-bar-in-firefox-4-with-status-4-evar-extension.html
hope this will help
thank you..

How can I implement a status bar at the bottom of a resizable application?

Hello all,
I am a JavaFx newbie and I am implementing an application (a Sokoban game), with a menu at the top of the frame and a gaming area covering the rest of the frame. To support the game, I have to load images at certain positions in the gaming area.
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root.getChildren().add(gameView);
... same stuff to build the le_view ...
le_View.setVisible(false);
root.getChildren().add(le_View);
Scene scene = new Scene(root, 800, 600, Color.CORNSILK); Now I want to introduce a status bar at the bottom of the frame, which of course has to follow the bottom of the frame, if it is resized. And of course the menu and the status bar should not grow vertically, if the height of the frame is increased.
The implementation seems to be easy with StackPane for the frame and one BorderPane for each mode.
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Best regards
Gerhard

Hello Gerhard,
Glad the code helped, thanks for a fun layout exercise.
For the draft code I just pulled an icon off the internet over a http connection.
If you haven't done so already place any icons and graphics you need local to your project, so that resource lookups like:
Image img = new Image("http://www.julepstudios.com/images/close-icon.png");become
Image img = new Image("close-icon.png");then performance may improve.
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I added some revisions to reflect the comments above and placed some comments in the code to note what was changed and why.
public class SampleGameLayoutRevised extends Application {
public static void main(String[] args) { Application.launch(args); }
public void start(Stage stage) throws Exception {
    final BorderPane gameLayout = new BorderPane();
    final Group gameView = new Group();
    final MenuBar gameMenubar = new MenuBar();
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    ImageView buildingView[][] = new ImageView[22][22];
    Image img = new Image("http://www.julepstudios.com/images/close-icon.png"); // use of http here is just for example, instead use an image resource from your project files.
    for (int nCol = 0; nCol < 22; nCol++) {
      for (int nRow = 0; nRow < 22; nRow++) {
        ImageView imgView = new ImageView(img);
        imgView.setScaleX(0.5);
        imgView.setScaleY(0.5);
        buildingView[nCol][nRow] = imgView;
        buildingView[nCol][nRow].setX(nCol * 20 + 5);
        buildingView[nCol][nRow].setY(nRow * 20 + 40);
        gameView.getChildren().add(buildingView[nCol][nRow]);
    final VBox statusBar = new VBox();
    final Text statusText = new Text("Playing Game");
    statusBar.getChildren().add(statusText);
    statusBar.setStyle("-fx-background-color: cornsilk"); // we set a background color on the status bar,
                                                          // because we can't rely on the scene background color
                                                          // because, if the scene is sized small, the status bar will start to overlay the game view
                                                          // and if we don't explicitly set the statusBar background the center view will start
                                                          // to bleed through the transparent background of the statusBar.
    gameLayout.setCenter(centerView); // we add the centerview first and we never change it, instead we put it's changeable contents in a vbox and change out the vbox content.
    gameLayout.setBottom(statusBar);
    gameLayout.setTop(gameMenubar);   // note the game layout is the last thing added to the borderpane so it will always stay on top if the border pane is resized.
    playGameMenu.setOnAction(new EventHandler<ActionEvent>() {
      public void handle(ActionEvent event) {
        centerView.getChildren().clear(); // here we perform a centerview vbox content swap.
        centerView.getChildren().add(gameView);
        statusText.setText("Playing Game");
    levelEditMenu.setOnAction(new EventHandler<ActionEvent>() {
      public void handle(ActionEvent event) {
        centerView.getChildren().clear(); // here we perform a centerview vbox content swap.
        centerView.getChildren().add(levelEditView);
        statusText.setText("Editing Level");
    playGameMenu.fire();
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    stage.setScene(scene);
    stage.show();
}Other than that I am not sure of a reason for the slowdown you are seeing. In my experience JavaFX has been quick and responsive for the tasks I have been using it for. Admittedly, I just use if for a bunch of small trial projects, but I've never seen it unresponsive for a minute.
- John

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A quick a dirty example:
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.event.*;
import javax.swing.border.*;
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I modified my code a little bit and now it works but I still can't figure out how to overwrite the initial string ("Applet started."). Can someone help me,please !!!
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I got this answer. Any one have other choices..
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import java.awt.*;
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import javax.swing.event.*;
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      private JMenuItem menuItem;
      private String helpText;
      private JLabel statusBar;
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Icon on the status bar

Hello,
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-Kathik

It's like BullJ says, if it's a JLabel you sure can. A status bar is not a Swing feature, you would have to implement it your self (e.g. using a JLabel). So it all depends on the component you're using.
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Hi Brad,
The checkbox to display messages in pop-up is already switched off.
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Regards,
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