Scripting Editor - Defining Custom Status Bars

The Tabbed Scripting Editor introduced in 3ds Max 2008 lets you define and switch between a large number of custom status bars displayed at the bottom of the Editor.

Multiple status bars can be defined to display different information about the current file and the editing environment.

By default, there are 4 pre-defined status bars which can be switched by clicking on the status bar.

All status bars can be customized and new ones can be defined in the MXS_Editor.properties file.

Here are the default definitions and the resulting status bars:

# Status Bar
statusbar.number=4
statusbar.text.1=\
li=$(LineNumber) co=$(ColumnNumber) offset=$(CharOffset) $(OverType) ($(EOLMode)) $(FileAttr)

statusbar.text.2=\
$(BufferLength) chars in $(NbOfLines) lines. Sel: $(SelLength) chars.

statusbar.text.3=\
Now is: Date=$(CurrentDate) Time=$(CurrentTime)

statusbar.text.4=\
$(FileNameExt) : $(FileDate) - $(FileTime) | $(FileAttr)