topic Best event for putting message into status bar? in ArcObjects SDK Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/best-event-for-putting-message-into-status-bar/m-p/44940#M1176 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I am a little stuck on this or just don't see the wood for the trees:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>In the OnMouseDown-event of an Addins.Tool-class I put a message into the statusbar using set_Message</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="plain" name="code">ArcMap.Application.StatusBar.set_Message(0, "&lt;myMessage&gt;")</PRE><DIV style="display:none;"> </DIV><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The message is momentary visible and disappears through another refresh-event I suppose.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I tried </SPAN><STRONG>onUpdate</STRONG><SPAN> to publish the message, but this event is called too often for my favor. </SPAN><STRONG>onRefresh </STRONG><SPAN>only occurs on changes of the map, which is too rare on the other side.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Could anybody put me on the right path, please. Thanks in advance.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Best regards</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Fossi</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 12 Jul 2013 11:04:55 GMT FossiG_ 2013-07-12T11:04:55Z Best event for putting message into status bar? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/best-event-for-putting-message-into-status-bar/m-p/44940#M1176 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I am a little stuck on this or just don't see the wood for the trees:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>In the OnMouseDown-event of an Addins.Tool-class I put a message into the statusbar using set_Message</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="plain" name="code">ArcMap.Application.StatusBar.set_Message(0, "&lt;myMessage&gt;")</PRE><DIV style="display:none;"> </DIV><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The message is momentary visible and disappears through another refresh-event I suppose.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I tried </SPAN><STRONG>onUpdate</STRONG><SPAN> to publish the message, but this event is called too often for my favor. </SPAN><STRONG>onRefresh </STRONG><SPAN>only occurs on changes of the map, which is too rare on the other side.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Could anybody put me on the right path, please. Thanks in advance.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Best regards</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Fossi</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 12 Jul 2013 11:04:55 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/best-event-for-putting-message-into-status-bar/m-p/44940#M1176 FossiG_ 2013-07-12T11:04:55Z