The Status Bar shows the state of the sketch and objects in the sketch. The Status Bar contains buttons for changing the state of selected objects, and moving to another View.
A number of sketch attributes can be controlled from the Status Bar, including:
· Change characteristics on selected variables; font type, size, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough.
· Set the hide level.
· Variable color, box color, surround shape, text position, arrow color, arrow width, arrow polarity etc.
When using the Text Editor (Vensim Professional and DSS), the Status Bar changes to reflect text editing operations.