Toggle AutoStatus

[kai]

I really think there should be an ⌶ for doing this, and I want to encourage everybody sharing my opinion to say so in this thread because then Dyalog might actually implement this.

However, Vince provided a slightly dirty Windows-only solution:

      ToggleAutoStatus←{
 ⍝ Toggle whether the AutoStatus menu item is checked or not.
 ⍝ ⍵ must be either 1 (checked) or 0 (not checked) or `?`.
 ⍝ Otherwise an error is thrown.
 ⍝ Use this to temporarily switch it off and back on again later.
 ⍝ Returns the status of the menu item as shy result.
 ⍝ A '?' as right argument reports the status without any change.
     ~(⊂⍵)∊0 1 '?':'Invalid right argument (0, 1 or ''?'')'⎕SIGNAL 11
     currentStatus←↑1↑↑(//)⎕VFI 2 ⎕NQ'.' 'GetEnvironment' 'ShowStatusOnError'
     ⍵≡'?':r←currentStatus
     (,currentStatus)≡,⍵:r←currentStatus
     f←⎕NEW'Form'(⊂'Visible' 0)
     b←f.⎕NEW'Button'(⊂'Event'('Select' '[AutoStatus]'))
     _←0 ⎕NQ b'select'
     1:r←~currentStatus
 }

Background is that sometimes I do stuff that is known to produce unhelpful error messages in the status window. Fire for example investigates variables under certain circumstances, and that can - though rarely - result in "Cannot be owned by a status bar" which does not help at all, so I want to hide that from the user.

[kai]

So, nobody is supporting the idea? Ah well...

I've edited the original function; as it turned out sometimes "currentStatus" is an empty vector, therefore

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currentStatus=⍵:r←currentStatus

needs to be

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(,currentStatus)≡,⍵:r←currentStatus

[Morten|Dyalog]

I support the idea of an I-Beam to toggle autostatus (especially because we need something cross platform), but it is part of a larger body of issues so we won't be looking at it until after Dyalog'17.