Re: [wxperl-users] SetStatusText Help

[Dave R. <dav...@ma...>]

> However, when I call
>
> Wx::Frame->SetStatusText("Success", 1);
>
> from the subroutine, the app dies.  No errors, warnings, or anything.  
> What
> am I doing wrong?

you should probably get a reference to the statusbar and work with that.

assuming $frame is your reference to the application frame:

my $sb = $frame->GetStatusBar();


> Also, is there a way to format the font color for the text in the status
> bar?  For example, I want success messages to be in blue, and errors in 
> red.

never tried, but $sb->SetForegroundColour(new Wx::Colour('Red')) might 
work.

/dave