Status Bar
Status bar is located at the bottom of
the VNCRobot window. It consists of three independent fields and
provides the following functionality:
- Display log messages in the leftmost field,
- Provide coordinates and extent of the most recent remote desktop
image (displayed in the VNC viewer) update
in the middle field (Update Coordinates Field),
- Show the current mouse pointer position in the remote desktop (Mouse Coordinates Field).
Update Coordinates Field
If you start an application on the VNC server and a new window opens
there, your server sends an update message to VNCRobot (or to any VNC
viewer in general). Such a mesage usually contains coordinates and size
of the update and a new picture for that area. The Update Coordinates
field display coordinates and size of the last significant remote
desktop image update.
Note that generally there are many update messages received from a VNC
server. If your desktop displays a clock, there's at least one update
per second as the seconds change. Also there's a cursor which is usually
blinking and generating many tiny image updates. As you are usually
interested in much larger updates like new windows etc., you can
configure the Update Coordinates field to display just updates greater
than a certain size. The default minimum update size is set to 10%. To
configure the limit go to Preferences and
select the Appearance -> Status Bar tree node. Alternatively right
click onto the status bar and select Configure in the popup menu as is
shown on the following picture.

You can use the coordinates to define expected update area with the Waitfor command. If you
select Copy Coordinates in the popup menu, the coordinates in the format
required by Waitfor will be copied into the clipboard. You can then use
Ctrl+V or select Paste to paste them into your script editor.
Mouse Coordinates Field
Mouse Coordinates is the rightmost field on the status bar.
- When the focus is on the VNC viewer, it displays coordinates of
the mouse pointer in the remote desktop. This is useful for the Mouse command. The field
can display either absolute or relative (percentage) coordinates. To
configure the display format go to Preferences
and select the Appearance -> Status Bar tree node. Alternatively
right click onto the status bar and select Configure in the popup menu.
- When the focus is in a script editor, the field displays the
caret position in the text in the form of
<line
#>:<char #>
.