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Codes for graphical elements

The following codes are used to display various graphical elements in the status bar. Some (like the {i} code for icons) are purely for cosmetic reasons, and others have more functional uses.

Code Description

{fl}
{gfl}

Format lock control

Displays the format lock icon (). This icon indicates the current state of the format lock, and clicking it will toggle the lock on and off. Hovering the mouse over the icon displays a tooltip indicating how the current folder format was derived.

{gfl} displays a grayscale version of the icon but otherwise behaves identically.

{i:dir}
{i:file}
{i:<ext>}
{i:<file>}

Icons

Lets you display an arbitrary icon in the status bar. For example, instead of status bar text that reads Folders: xxx / yyy you could display a generic folder icon.

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{i:dir} {sd}/{td} {i:file} {sf}/{tf} {i:.mp3} {smp3}/{tmp3}

You may want this to save space on the status bar or for purely cosmetic reasons.

You can specify a generic folder icon ({i:dir}), a generic file icon ({i:file}), or an icon for a specific file type (e.g. {i:.mp3} for an MP3 file icon).

You can also use your own custom icon or image by providing the path and filename of the icon. For example, {i:/mypictures/myicon.png}. The image file will be automatically scaled down to fit the status bar.

{bg}

Bar graphs

Bar graphs can be used to visually represent a value as a percentage. The default behaviour of bar graphs is to display the percentage of disk space used on the current drive, but using the various parameters for the {bg} code you can configure a bar graph to represent any other status bar value as a percentage of either another value or an absolute amount.

See the page on bar graphs for full details on configuring the graphs.