Main Menu and Status Bar

Main Menu

Almost every application is expected to have a main menu. With DXBars, creating the main menu is as easy as creating any other toolbar. Main menus can be customized in the same manner and they support the same features as regular toolbars. They usually have a different painting style and sub-menu items don't display dropdown glyphs when in main menus. There are also a few differences in default settings - main menus are initially stretched to fit container size and they don't display the drag thumb.

Once you created a toolbar, you can easily convert it to a main menu with a single property setting.

Status Bar

Much like a main menu, a status bar is typical of many applications. It's used to display any static information along the bottom of the window or page. However, with the DXBars library, you can also embed editors and any type of items into the status bar (as well, as into a main menu).

A status bar is automatically stretched to fit the container's size and hides the drag thumb and customization button:

All the other features and customization mechanism are the same as for regular bars. Generally speaking, you won't see any differences when working with a status bar, main menu and regular bars.

If you need to transform any bar into a status bar, just change a single property.