How to add a status bar in an RCP app?

If you are writing an RCP application, you may want to add a status message in the status bar. Adding it is very simple.



By all chance, you already have a class extending org.eclipse.ui.application.ActionBarAdvisor in your RCP app (If not, Google around to find out how to add one to your RCP app). Just override the fillStatusLine method.



private StatusLineContributionItem statusItem;



@Override

protected void fillStatusLine(IStatusLineManager statusLine) {



statusItem = new StatusLineContributionItem("LoggedInStatus");

statusItem.setText("Logged in");

statusLine.add(statusItem);

}



Thats it :-)







Note 1: You can add any number of status items

Note 2: In Eclipse 3.3, the class StatusLineContributionItem is in org.eclipse.ui.internal.util package. This has been moved to org.eclipse.jface.action package in Eclipse 3.4