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Status Bar

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The Status bar at the bottom of the Ple4Win main window is showing program status data and allows access to 'special tables' of a pipeline project.

Below is a screen capture of the Status bar. For information on a labelled feature, see the list underneath.

Statusbar

Other features:

Resize handle

Use to resize the main window in width and height simultaneously.

Invisible if the main window is maximised.

Program status features:

Threading status	Changes to while the program is actually doing project calculations.
Status messages	Informational messages about what is happening with the program.
Progress indicator	A graphical representation of the progress made in situations that take a longer period of time, such as starting up the program, closing it down of calculating a design function. Increases while progress is made. With some design functions, the progress shown is based on iteration results and can actually decrease if the iteration process 'goes the wrong way'.
Keyboard Num Lock status	Shows the Num Lock status of the computer keyboard.
Keyboard Caps Lock status	Shows the Caps Lock status of the computer keyboard.
Date	Shows the current date.
Time	Shows the current time. The tool tip shows the how long the program has been active since it has been started.

Project features:

History table

Clicking this icon will show the history table of the current pipeline project in the Workspace panel. Is greyed out if no project is loaded.

Status table

Clicking this icon will show the status table of the current pipeline project in the Workspace panel. Is greyed out if no project is loaded.

Warning table

Clicking this icon will show the error/warning/message table of the current pipeline project in the Workspace panel. Is greyed out if no project is loaded.

The icon colour gives some indication about the table contents:

	Table is empty
	Table has informational messages in it
	Table has warnings and maybe informational messages in it
	Table has errors and maybe warnings or informational messages in it

The tool tip shows the number of items in the table.

Warning trap

Allows the user to select at which level of messages the program will stop and ask the user to confirm he read the message before continuing. Is greyed out if no project is loaded. Stopping only occurs while design functions are processed.

Clicking the icon will cycle it through the following sequence:

	Don't stop and ask for user confirmation
	Stop on errors but do not ask for user confirmation on warnings or informational messages
	Stop on errors and warnings but do not ask for user confirmation on informational messages
	Stop on all types of messages and ask for user confirmation

The tool tip shows a clear text description of the trap setting.

Statusbar, last changed: 14/05/2018