ucStatusBar is a single file, self-subclassed StatusBar replacement control which supports complete customization per individual panel. Each panel supports the following independent properties: Text, Text Alignment (Left, Center, and Right), Auto/Manual Sizing, Editable (Dynamic Text Editing), Icons, Icon States (Enabled, Disabled), UseMaskColor, MaskColor, ForeColor, Font, ToolTipText, and Width. In addition the ucStatusBar as a whole supports BackColor, GripShapes (None, Classic Bars, XP Squares), Sizeable, and Theme Detection (Auto, Classic, Blue, HomeStead, and Metallic). ucStatusBar also provides dynamic runtime Control Binding to allow external controls (Progressbar, Droplist, etc) to be bound to individual panels. As a bonus, this submission also includes ucProgressbar, which is a self-subclassed Theme-Aware progress bar (modified from Mario Flores - Cool XP ProgressBar). So, If your project needs a modern lightweight StatusBar with dynamic runtime functionality without the overhead of dependencies, then this control might be just what the doctor ordered.
Enjoy!! TerriTop…
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Well, I would have to respectfully disagree with you, the ucStatusBar by comparison is ~9X smaller than the alternative of using MS Common Controls (MSCOMCTL.OCX) which is 1.03 MB. The other plus is that one does not have compatability issues imposed by out of date MSCOMCTL.OCX on PC's oen might be deploying to. In short the trade offs are worth the gains...but only you can decide if this is right for your packages ;-)
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Hi TerriTop you say the Truth, the MSCOMCTL.OCX is extreme height with if you only need to use a StatusBar control, I prefer put the UC StatusBar in my programs.
This UC is great 5/5 (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
ability to resize panels in Runtime will make it unique. Thanks for making the issue of hosting a control in Panel so easy! Please see if you can add "Resizable" property to the Panel of Status bar which will change the mouse cursor to horizontal arrow cursor and user will be able to resize panels.
For those, who are just interested in eliminating OCX overhead may consider drawing status bar using CreateWindow and other related API. This code link may help: http://vbnet.mvps.org/code/comctl/statbaroverview.htm
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Sorry, in my last comment I mentioned CreateWindow API; actually I wanted to say CreateStatusWindow. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Very nice! I may very well use this in my commercial software as long as it can handle 32-bit icons. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
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