statusToolbarFields

layout statusToolbarFields string { "(SelectorInformation)" }

Description

Specifies the information that you want to display on the status toolbar. By using selectors, you can display information such as the cellview size, count of selected objects, and values of environment variables, shell environment variables, and window variables.

The format of the string is a series of selectors, where each selector is listed in parenthesis. Use the following format to define SelectorInformation for each selector in the series.

(selector tooltip style_format)

For each selector, you can optionally specify a tooltip and the style for displaying the information. You can also use expressions for conditional formatting of the information. For information about specifying tooltips, display style, and conditional formatting for selectors, see Status Toolbar Customization.

The following table describes the selectors that you can use to display information on the status toolbar.

Selector	Description
X	Displays the X coordinate of the mouse pointer.
Y	Displays the Y coordinate of the mouse pointer.
dX	Displays the dX coordinate of the mouse pointer from the last reference point.
dY	Displays the dY coordinate of the mouse pointer from the last reference point.
EXYDXDY	Displays the editable group of X, Y, dX, and dY coordinates.
Cmd	Displays the name of the currently active command such as Move or Copy.
CVSize	Displays the width and height of the cellview.
Dist	Displays the distance from the last reference.
DRDNotify	Displays whether DRD Notify mode is on or off.
DRDEnforce	Displays whether DRD Enforce mode is on or off.
DRDPost-Edit	Displays whether DRD Post-Edit mode is on or off.
Mode	Displays the selection mode as full (F) or partial (P).
PreSelSelObjInfo	Displays the selection or pre-selection information about objects.
Select	Displays the count of selected objects.
SelC	Displays the count of selectable objects under the cursor in the format current/total. For example, 2/4 implies second of four overlapping objects.
SelI	Displays the selection count of instances.
SelO	Displays the selection count of objects.
SelN	Displays the selection count of nets.
T	Displays a fixed text string on the toolbar.
Tpt	Displays the status of transparent group mode as t or blank.
E	Displays the value of the specified environment variable. You need to specify the data type as per the variable.
S	Displays the value of the specified SKILL variable. You need to specify the data type as per the variable.
SH	Displays the value of the specified shell variable.
W	Displays the value of the specified window variable. You need to specify the data type as per the variable.

The default is "", which means that the predefined set of fields is displayed on the toolbar.

GUI Equivalent

None

Examples

envGetVal("layout" "statusToolbarFields")

The following command displays X and Y coordinates on the status toolbar:

envSetVal("layout" "statusToolbarFields" 'string "(X) (Y)")

The following command displays X and Y coordinates, with X as the tooltip for the X coordinate and Y Coordinate as the tool tip for the Y coordinate.

envSetVal("layout" "statusToolbarFields" 'string "(X t) (Y \"Y Coordinate\")")

The following command displays the size of the cellview, editable X, Y, dX, and dY fields, name of the current command, selection count, count of selectable objects under the cursor, and selection information:

envSetVal("layout" "statusToolbarFields" 'string "(CVSize \"Boundary size\") \\| (EXYDXDY) \\| (Cmd t (V == \"\" \"Idle\") (V != \"\" \"<b>%s</b>\")) \\|  (Select t (V==\"0\" \"s: %s\")(V!=\"0\" \"<span style=\\\"color:red;font-weight:bold\\\">s: %s</span>\")) \\| (SelC \"Object under cursor\" \"C/T: %s\") \\| (PreSelSelObjInfo \"Selected object info\")")

Related Topics

Status Information

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