Displaying a status message on a WindowedApplication in Adobe AIR

By On December 10, 2008 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the status message on an AIR WindowedApplication by setting the status property.

Full code after the jump.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- http://airexamples.com/2008/12/10/displaying-a-status-message-on-a-windowedapplication-in-adobe-air/ -->
<mx:WindowedApplication name="WindowedApplication_status_test"
        xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
        layout="vertical"
        verticalAlign="middle"
        backgroundColor="white"
        status="{textInput.text}">
 
    <mx:ApplicationControlBar dock="true">
        <mx:Form styleName="plain">
            <mx:FormItem label="status:">
                <mx:TextInput id="textInput" />
            </mx:FormItem>
        </mx:Form>
    </mx:ApplicationControlBar>
 
</mx:WindowedApplication>

Tagged with: status • WindowedApplication

3 Responses to Displaying a status message on a WindowedApplication in Adobe AIR

Dave says:

January 8, 2009 at 8:47 pm

I tried this and got the following error….

Severity and Description Path Resource Location Creation Time Id
Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: statusBar. [Generated code (use -keep to save): Path: statusBar-generated.as, Line: 168, Column: 14] statusBar Unknown 1231476368647 9838

something wrong at my end?

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cengler says:

July 12, 2010 at 6:50 am

How can i chage the status text inside a component…

There is a static reference to the application,
like Application.application in flex…

I Try NativeApplication.nativeApplication.status = “foo”, but does not work …

Any ideas?

Tanks

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topher says:

February 18, 2011 at 2:14 pm

The status text property is handled differently in Flex 4 IIRC

Try:

statusText.text=”foo”;

This always works for me; or data binding the status property to a [Bindable] private String variable.

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