# 6.2. The Statusbar Help

The statusbar of KDevelop offers you many functions that inform you about the current activity state as well as "status messages" offering a short description for commands.

## 6.2.1. Statusbar Entries

The Statusbar contains:

1. a general message field, most left. This is used for help messages and displays the current activity.

2. the progressbar, indicating the progress for actions that require a comparably long time to be finished, such as saving files and the scan-progress of the Class Browser. The progressbar only appears during those processes are executed.

3. an Insert/Overwrite indicator. It shows the editor mode for insert actions by INS for Insert mode and OVR for Overwrite mode. The mode can be changed by the INS-key on the keyboard.

4. a line counter, displaying the current line the cursor is placed.

5. a column counter, indicating the current column position of the cursor in a line.

## 6.2.2. Help Messages

The statusbar informs you about the action of menu entries if you select a menu within the menubar and select an action without executing it. Further, if you press on a toolbar icon, but without releasing the mousebutton, the help message for the button is displayed in the same way as for the menu entries. You can prevent the execution of the selected icon by moving the mousepointer away from the icon, still holding the button pressed. If the cursor is away, release the mousebutton.

For actions that are currently executed, KDevelop displays the action. This counts for processes running in the background such as saving files as well as for dialogs. If the process has exited such as a make-invocation, the statusbar display changes back to "Ready" state.

Also, when using the documentation browser , the statusbar displays link urls for as long as the cursor is placed over an URL link in the browser window. Therefore, you can easily find out if the file is a local or a remote file only accessed by network connection.

The caption of the KDevelop Project Editor shows you the currently opened filename in the top window. This would be a HTML file for the documentation browser or a text file for the editing windows. Further, the Project name is displayed, so you have constant control where you are and what you're currently working at.