Code Roar Reference Manual: The Status Bar

The Status Bar

The status bar displays information about the active document including:

The current location of the cursor (line/column)
The read/write status of the file
The insert/overwrite mode
Interactive status bar prompt used for operations such as search and replace

It also gives the user control over some of the display elements of the editing area including:

Display/hide non-visible characters
Display/hide end of line characters
Display/hide line numbers
Display/hide folding icons
Highlight current line
Display/hide indent guides

The status bar is shown in the following figure:

More information on each section may be found by clicking on each of the sections in the above figure.

Status Bar Sections

Component

Description

Status bar prompt

The status bar prompt is used with certain operations to replace the built-in dialogs allowing the user to type directly in the status bar. The status bar prompt is used with such operations as:

search
replace
prompted indent
open
insert file

Read the status bar prompt article from more information on the purpose of this control.

Insert/Overwrite Mode

The Insert/overwrite mode controls the active input mode. There are two input modes:

Overwrite	Overwrite mode replaces the current text with the input from the keyboard, clipboard or other text input device.
Insert	Insert mode inserts text at the insertion point instead of replacing the existing text.

Read/Write File Status

This field displays the current read/write status of the current file. If the file is read-only then the text RO is displayed. Otherwise the field is empty.

Current Character Representation

Displays the current character representation in hex, its corresponding ASCII value, and the character itself. The field is displayed as:

$6F 111 o

where $6F is the hex representation of the character 'o' and 111 is its ASCII value.

Current Line Number

Displays the current line number in the active document where the cursor is located. Right clicking or double clicking this field displays the Go to line dialog.

Current Column Number

Displays the current column number in the active document where the cursor is located. Right clicking or double clicking this field displays the Go to column dialog.

Last Saved Timer

This field displays the time in minutes since the file was last saved. It is meant to indicate to the user that they have not saved their work.