Status Bar

You can tell Opus exactly what information to display on the status bar. By default a count of files, folders (and how many are selected) is shown, but you can configure the display to include much more information, including total playing time for music files and bar graphs to represent things like the proportion of space selected files would take up on a DVD. The text that tells Opus what to display on the status bar is known as its definition.

 

There are a three different definition styles available. You can choose either:

  1. A single status bar definition that's used everywhere
  2. Two definitions - one that's used in single display mode, and one that's used in dual display mode
  3. Two definitions - one that's used for the left file display and one that's used for the right file display

 

The options at the top of the page determinate which combination you want to use:

 

Depending on the state of the Separate definitions option there will either be one or two multi-line text fields on this page, for you to edit the definition text. Each line of the status bar definition corresponds to a "section" on the status bar. You can align or pad sections, and even have sections hidden based on simple conditions.
 

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This image shows the default status bar definition. There are seven lines in the text field, which means seven separate sections in the status bar. As you can probably tell, you tell Opus which information to display using a series of {..} codes. We won't document all those codes here - there's a full list in the reference section. Luckily you don't actually need to know most of the codes, as the Codes drop-down at the top of the dialog provides a full list with descriptions of their meanings.

 

Below the text field is a small preview of the status bar - this updates in real time, so as you make changes to the status bar definition you can get an idea for how it will look in real life. The red highlight indicates the section you are currently editing.

 

The first line of text in the status bar definition shown above corresponds to the first section in the preview, and so on.

 

 See the Status Bar Codes reference section for the full list of codes you can use.