No Status Info in Opera 7

Poster: dmead001
Dated: Friday September 19 2003 - 2:00:10 BST

I just noticed that Opera 7 does not show the status message programmed in the menu. All other browsers I've checked show it fine. Is this a bug in either Opera or the menu?

Poster: pscs
Dated: Wednesday September 24 2003 - 0:09:35 BST

FWIW when trying out various different DHTML menu systems (before picking Milonic) some of them managed to show status text in Opera, so it must be possible...

Poster: Hergio
Dated: Wednesday September 24 2003 - 1:52:21 BST

Could you please give me a URL to such a site, I just scowered google looking for a status bar script that would edit the status bar text in opera 7 but none actually did it in opera 7.

Poster: dmead001
Dated: Wednesday September 24 2003 - 4:45:45 BST

opps sorry - I have status bar messages for several items on my menu because it tends to hide my urls. http://www.geneseotrack.com has most of the main links showing status bar messages not urls. Hope this helps - thanks

Poster: Andy
Dated: Wednesday September 24 2003 - 8:51:15 BST

One thing you should do with Opera is ensure that you have the absolute latest version. Each one changes, sometimes they break things, sometimes they fix em.

Opera 7.2 should work as expected.

Cheers
Andy.

Poster: pscs
Dated: Wednesday September 24 2003 - 10:31:24 BST

Hergio,

AllWebMenus Pro from http://www.likno.com does it in Opera 7.2

(I can't get Milonic's menus to do it - I can't actually get my own javascript to do it either, so I don't know how AllWebMenus does it..)

Poster: Andy
Dated: Wednesday September 24 2003 - 10:40:12 BST

I can see the status just fine in Opera 7.2 on the Milonic Menu

I can't see status in Milonic's or Likno's menu in Opera 7.1 though, clearly a bug in Opera.

Are you sure you have Opera 7.2 running?

Cheers
Andy

Poster: pscs
Dated: Wednesday September 24 2003 - 10:45:55 BST

OK, I've just had a play here, and I'm not sure if it's a bug in Opera or a setting I've got or something, but it seems to show the 'Title' attribute in the status bar

eg

if I have

<a title="testtitle" onMouseOver="status='teststatus';return true;">testing</a>

This is in Opera 7.2 (build 3087) it shows 'testtitle' in the status bar (as well as showing it as a popup over the link), in IE6 it shows 'teststatus' in the status bar, as I'd expect

(This is actually the same as Likno's menu - it's not showing the status text, but the title text - I just had them set the same so I couldn't see which one it was)

I'm quite willing to accept it could be a setting in my Opera, but I can't see where - and it is DEFINITELY a Opera 7.20 build (according to Help -> About Opera)

Poster: Andy
Dated: Wednesday September 24 2003 - 10:53:18 BST

By Default - status bars in Opera are off ( I think )

To switch it on try:



Cheers
Andy

Poster: pscs
Dated: Wednesday September 24 2003 - 11:24:54 BST

The status bars themselves are there, they just don't show the status text.

I'm currently downloading the latest version of Opera 7.2, as the version I have is a week or so old...

Poster: pscs
Dated: Wednesday September 24 2003 - 11:29:21 BST

OK, the very latest 7.20 seems to work fine..

Sorry for the false alarm...

Poster: John
Dated: Wednesday September 24 2003 - 15:43:58 BST

No problem - thanks for the feedback.

Opera 7

Poster: dmead001
Dated: Thursday September 25 2003 - 5:38:44 BST

I was using Opera 7.20 but apparently there is a more recent with the same number that has resolved the issue. Thanks again for the great support Now if I could only figure out why ALL mozilla browsers on my computer suddenly throw "disk not in drive" errors when they are opened (happened when i just installed Opera!)

Poster: John
Dated: Thursday September 25 2003 - 14:58:17 BST

Now that's an interesting combination. But the resolution, of course, is obvious...