Question

I have just added a new panel to StatusBar1 and it is called 5 – TStatusPanel. I want to give it a different name but I can’t remember how to do this.

I want to rename 5 – TStatusPanel to 5 – GripArea. As you can see from the image I have done this before (see Num, Caps, AM/PM) but I can’t remember how I did this. It sucks to get old.

Answer 1

Just change the Text property of the TStatusPanel. This is what is displayed in the status panel editor. Of course, this will make the text visible in the panel! Normally, in code, you access the status panels using the StatusBar1.Panels[PanelIndex] array. PanelIndex is the zero-based index of the panel. I always declare constants such as

STATUS_FILE_POSITION = 0;
STATUS_FILE_SAVED = 1;
STATUS_LONG_TEXT = 2;
STATUS_ZOOM_CONTROL = 3;

and use these to remember the panels. (The code above is from my text editor.)

So I can do, for instance,

StatusBar.Panels[STATUS_FILE_SAVED].Text := 'Modified';