Enterprise Curl

Introduction

Now that we have developed our base framework, MDI Frame, and have seen how to make use of its functionality within the VMS Motors application, we will investigate how to incorporate additional elements to it.

In this chapter, we will learn how to develop and add a status bar to the bottom of the frame; specifically we will investigate the following:

• Using a service-oriented architecture to enable or disable status bar functionality

• Controlling which elements of a status bar are displayed through a container class

• Scrolling the text displayed in a status bar

• Sending application messages to the status bar

• Displaying local date and time information

• Using inheritance to maximize reuse and minimize code