When you are reading a document or captured text in the WintextCom Reader, the status line at the bottom of the screen keeps track of your position. This information can be very useful, especially with long documents, by providing an indication of your progress at all times.

The information on the status line may be considered to be broken up into 3 fields, although there are no actual field separators or spacing and it appears as a single piece of text.

The first field is the percentage of the total number of available characters that have been read. The value represents the number of characters behind the current display position as a percentage of the total number of characters available (the size of the disk file if that is what is being read). The percentage is shown rounded to the nearest whole number or to one or more decimal places, depending on the total amount of text available. It is updated at least every 1,000 characters read, so that it provides a meaningful gauge of one's progress through a document. The total number of available characters is displayed with commas separating the thousands if it is 1,000 or more, which makes large numbers considerably easier to grasp.

The second filed indicates the source of the text being read, in double quotes, preceded by the word "in". If you have opened a library file or document elsewhere on your computer, the filename is presented, otherwise:

If the text is being read from the Windows clipboard, whether explicitly or because text from an application has been copied to the clipboard in order to make it accessible, "*Clipboard*" is shown.
If the text has been made available from an application window that WintextCom can read directly, or through a temporary document used to provide access to the output of a scanner, for example, "*Document*" is shown.

Filenames are shown in all lowercase except as noted below. If the file has the default library extension of ".txt", this extension is not displayed, even if the file is not in the library, but other extensions are. To differentiate between .txt files and a file that has no extension, the name is shown in uppercase for the later; ordinarily, you will not be reading files with no extension because a ".txt" extension is automatically added to the names of files being saved in the library without typing an extension, but it is possible that a file with no extension could be saved by other means and opened in the reader. If the file is a library file, only its name or path relative to the library is shown, otherwise, its full path is displayed. Filenames ending in just a period are shown in lowercase, the period is taken to be a blank extension, it is different from a file with no extension at all that does not include a period and is shown in uppercase.

The third field of the status line provides explicit information about your current reading position. The first number is the current display position in terms of the character position in the available text, starting with the first position as 1. The second number is the character position at which the display will be situated if you press the advance key to move forward through the text at that point. Both numbers have commas separating the thousands if they are greater than 1,000. Note that these values are not necessarily what you might expect as you read through a document, because of skipping over areas of just space or new lines. When the display is right at the end of the text and will not move when the advance key is pressed, only one number is shown, the character value of the display position.

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Status Information