Add the ability to push temporary (and highlighted) messages onto the

statusbar. This lets us notify the user about something significant
without having to pop up an annoying window. Replace a few dialogs with
statusbar messages.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=30810

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/simple_dialog.h b/simple_dialog.h
index 0fc06f395a..1b503e9405 100644
--- a/simple_dialog.h
+++ b/simple_dialog.h
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ typedef enum {
 extern gpointer simple_dialog(ESD_TYPE_E type, gint btn_mask,
     const gchar *msg_format, ...)
     GNUC_FORMAT_CHECK(printf, 3, 4);
+
 /** Create and show a simple dialog using a va_list.
  *
  * @param type type of dialog
@@ -160,6 +161,15 @@ extern char *simple_dialog_format_message(const char *msg);
  */
 extern void display_queued_messages(void);
 
+/** Show a message in the status bar.
+ *
+ * @param msg Status message
+ */
+extern void simple_status(const gchar *msg_format, ...)
+    GNUC_FORMAT_CHECK(printf, 1, 2);
+
+
+
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 }
 #endif /* __cplusplus */