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Bug 28083

Summary:	Create org.openide.explorer.view.MiniStatusBar
Product:	platform	Reporter:	Jesse Glick <jglick>
Component:	Explorer	Assignee:	Petr Nejedly <pnejedly>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	blocker	CC:	mslama, tboudreau
Priority:	P3	Keywords:	API, UI
Version:	3.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	20517, 29134

Description Jesse Glick 2002-10-17 16:03:48 UTC

Suggestion - to make it easier to create your own
Explorer tabs, move the status bar to the APIs as
a utility class. I suggest the Explorer View
package; in fact I think it could be a real view,
i.e. search for ExplorerManager.Provider to find
the associated ExplorerManager.

With such a change, you would just need to make a
TopComponent, add a BeanTreeView to the center and
a MiniStatusBar to the south, set a root context,
and you would be done.

Core-supplied tabs need to also listen to
IDESettings to see if the status bar should be
turned on or off, I guess. No proposed equivalent
for module-supplied tabs; they can display it or
not at their discretion.

Comment 1 Peter Zavadsky 2002-10-21 09:17:58 UTC

Passing to Jiri.
Please have a look at it, if it is worth beeing API. 

Currently there are two same codes of MiniStatusBar, in core and in
projects.

Comment 2 Jesse Glick 2003-01-16 15:14:01 UTC

A somewhat different suggestion:

Make it possible to turn status bar on or off from a context menu in
BeanTreeView (i.e. if you right-click on blank space) or from the
status bar itself (if currently visible). Remove property from
IDESettings. Store status bar on/off state in the ExplorerPanel when
externalizing - BeanTreeView could e.g. use a client property for
this, to avoid introducing a public getter/setter into ExplorerPanel.
Make "on" the default.

Comment 3 Jiri Rechtacek 2003-03-24 16:06:31 UTC

*** Issue 23924 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

Comment 4 Jiri Rechtacek 2003-03-24 16:55:19 UTC

*** Issue 29134 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

Comment 5 Jiri Rechtacek 2004-04-23 10:46:27 UTC

Assigned to new owner.

Comment 6 _ tboudreau 2005-07-09 11:14:46 UTC

Shouldn't this issue be closed?  MiniStatusBar is long dead.

Comment 7 Jesse Glick 2005-07-13 22:21:41 UTC

I guess so.