RE: "Status line" vs. "Status Bar"

  • From: "Jim Grimsby" <jimgrims@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 07:04:09 -0700

Hi, 
Well some programs infact use a status bar.  Or make a control for it
like goldwave.  Other do not.  Some paint status information in static
text boxes at the bottom of the screen.  Or some time above it.  An
example of this is the windows xp cd  writing wizard.  Hints the read
status line.  If this command only looked for a status bar half the
status information that is read with this command now would not be read.

Hth 

jim grimsby 
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Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 11:52 AM
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Subject: "Status line" vs. "Status Bar"


A knowledgeable friend just corrected my misimpression about this.  it's

been too long since I read the documentation referring to these screen 
elements, or seen them, and I'd forgotten that this area at the bottom
of a 
Word or OE screen is more than a line of informative words and numbers.
My 
friend reminds me that, similar to the Task Bar on the Desktop, they,
too, 
contain control buttons that a mouse user could click on to do certain
tasks 
in the program.  So I take back what I said.  I've heard these referred
to 
as "lines" many times by experienced computer users, blind and sighted 
alike, and assumed that this is what they were called.

Sorry about that.



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