Status Strip Container Control in Windows Forms

StatusStrip container control is used to display objects that are on the current form and also to provide feedback on the progress of any progress of any operation being performed by the form. Some of the properties of this container control are:

• Items: collection of items to be displayed on the control.
• LayoutStyle: specifies the layout orientation of the control.
• Dock: defines the border of control which will bind to the parent control.

Status strip control contains four child controls that can be placed as and when required. The child controls are:

Status Label Control

Works as a Label control. Used to display status information and prompt the user for a valid entry. It has some properties to be used by programmer like

• Text: text to be displayed on the control.
• Spring: whether the item fills up the remaining space or not. It is a Boolean type property.
• TextAlign: specify the alignment of the text.

ProgressBar Control

Used to show the status of the task performing by the user. Represent window progress bar control. Some properties of this control are:

• Minimum: lower bound of the range.
• Maximum: upper bound of the range.
• Value: current value to be set on this control.
• Step: value to be increment/decrement.

DropDown Button Control

Displays toolStripDropDown from which user can select one item at a time. Generally used when the items to be displayed on StatusStrip cannot be accommodated. Some of the properties of this control are:

• DisplayStyle: whether the text or image to be displayed.
• DoubleClickEnabled: whether the double click event will occur.
• DropDownItems: specifies the toolStripItem when the item is clicked.

SplitButton Control

It is a combination of a standard button and a drop-down button on the left and right respectively. Some of the properties are:

• DisplayStyle: whether the text or image to be displayed.
• DoubleClickEnabled: whether the double click event will occur.
• Padding: internal spacing within the item.

The following image shown all the four controls of the StatusStrip control.

Error Provider Control