Is it possible for Editor plugins to utilise the middle portion of the Editor's statusbar?
Background:
As a result of another recent bout of RSI I decided to try to reduce the amount of "excess clicking" in my many Editor plugins. For years I used a simple standard calibre info_dialog widget to report "
Toolname: No action required", which needed to be manually closed with click/keystroke. This is the "excess clicking" I want to try to reduce.
I do want to have positive confirmation when a plugin runs OK but nothing needed to be changed. I've tried the other approach of "just do nothing if nothing changed", but I don't like it.
So far I've tried a few alternatives for displaying a temporary "No action required" message. They all work OK with pros & cons.
- add to Editor statusbar with a 30secs timeout
- simple modeless, buttonless QDialog widget which auto-closes in 5secs
- a QSystemTrayIcon notifier, which auto-closes after a few secs by default
- temporarily "borrowing" the Editor CheckBook panel's Help TextBrowser (a bit naughty but these are personal plugins and it works
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I've been using option 1. for a few weeks. It works pretty well but the message appears in the bottom left corner which is not really in the natural eye-line and is already quite busy with other tabs and panels. If I could force the message into the wide-open spaces of the central portion of the statusbar I think this would be my option of choice.
[For anyone wondering whether all this experimenting risked more RSI - the irony is not lost on me.
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