Thursday, 18 February 2016
StatusStrip is a collection of controls which are displayed at the bottom of the form which is generally used to display the status of the window form.
Default Event: Click which is fired when user click on the item.
Steps to create StatusStrip
Drag and drop a StatusStrip control to the form which is displayed on the bottom panel of the form but also shows up the dropdown with list of controls at the bottom of the form.
You can use the dropdown available at the bottom of the form to select and add controls in the StatusStrip which is present at the bottom of the form.
Double click on the StatusStrip item to see the generated event handler of that specific item and you can create event handler for each item to write some code that has to be executed when you click on that item in the runtime.
Default Event: Click which is fired when user click on the item.
Steps to create StatusStrip
Drag and drop a StatusStrip control to the form which is displayed on the bottom panel of the form but also shows up the dropdown with list of controls at the bottom of the form.
You can use the dropdown available at the bottom of the form to select and add controls in the StatusStrip which is present at the bottom of the form.
Double click on the StatusStrip item to see the generated event handler of that specific item and you can create event handler for each item to write some code that has to be executed when you click on that item in the runtime.
Example
code to display number of characters present in a textbox in status label
Double click on the textbox and write the
below code.
private void textBox2_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
toolStripStatusLabel1.Text = textBox2.Text.Length.ToString();
}
