Status Bar and Stop Button

The status bar contains five panes.

Figure 4:15. Status Bar

• Pane 1 - Prompts the user to certain actions. For example, if the user is removing points from the current curve, this pane will display "Select point to remove". This information is also displayed in a Popup Prompt dialog which can be enabled or disabled via the OPTIONS/POPUP PROMPTS menu. A progress bar is also shown in this pane during certain operations.

• Pane 2 - The STOP button. Normally this pane is disabled. However, during certain operations, it will become highlighted (as shown in Figure 4:15 above). The user can click in this pane with the Left Mouse button to stop the operation.

• Pane 3 - Shows information about the current design, current view, current curve,

• Pane 4 - Shows the coordinate of the current mouse position in 2D views (Section, Buttock, Waterline, SAC).

• Pane 5 - Shows the current position in the rollback list for the current curve. For example, "Rollback History 4/5" indicates that there has been 5 edits to the current curve. The last edit has been undone.