Status bar

The status bar is a bar at the bottom of the Radio Explorer window that displays information about current memory usage, current time, and current solar conditions, as well as progress information for lengthy processes. You can show or hide the status bar.

Memory indicator bar
Solar Flux field
A Index field
K Index field
Time mode field
Current time field
Current day field
Progress bar

Memory indicator bar

Displays information about current memory usage, with the full length of the bar corresponding to the total amount of reserved memory (by all Radio Explorer windows), and the filled part of the bar corresponding to the amount of actually used memory (also by all windows). You can have detailed information about memory usage displayed in a tool tip by resting the mouse pointer over the indicator bar.

Get information about memory resources used by Radio Explorer

Solar Flux field

Displays the current solar flux value. This field shares a common context menu with other solar information status fields.

Solar Flux glossary article

Ap (A index) field

Displays the current A index value. This field shares a common context menu with other solar information status fields.

A Index glossary article

Kp (K index) field

Displays the current K index value. This field shares a common context menu with other solar information status fields.

K Index glossary article

Solar information fields context menu

You can open the context menu by right‐clicking the solar information fields.

To refresh solar information from the Internet, click Refresh solar information on the context menu.

To manually set the solar information values, click Options Options on the context menu. This will open the Options dialog box with the Solar Information tab selected.

Set solar information values
Refresh solar information from the Internet
Options dialog box, Solar Information tab

Time mode field

Indicates the current time display mode. For the local time mode, the home icon home icon is displayed. For the UTC time mode, UTC is displayed.

Set the local time or the UTC time display mode

Current time field

Displays either the current local time or the current UTC time, according to the active time display mode.

Set the local time or the UTC time display mode

Holiday OffWeekday OnWeekday OffWeekday OffWeekday OffWeekday OffHoliday Off Current day field

Displays days of week as rectangles, with the current day displayed as a filled rectangle. The displayed current day is either the current day in your local time zone, or the current day in the UTC time zone, according to the active time display mode.

Set the local time or the UTC time display mode
Set the display style for the days of week

Progress bar

Displays status information for lengthy processes. For example, the progress bar displays the degree of completion when Radio Explorer is opening a schedule file or querying the schedule. The status information is also displayed when printing is in progress. In this case the status information is displayed in the indeterminate mode, with the progress indicator moving forward and backward and not indicating the degree of completion.

See also
Show or hide the view bar, caption bar or status bar