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IguanaX makes it very easy to implement a custom status for components. By status, we mean to show information about what the component is doing on the component’s card.

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titleUse component.setStatus{data=Text}

Make a component and use thisThis is a basic example of how you can call the status API:

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component.setStatus{data="Hello world!"}

Where would you call it?

It depends on what the component you are writing is doing. It’s a useful tool to be able to show in real time what a component is doing on the card.

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titleWhen you run the component you will see Hello world! in the status at the bottom of the component card

Remember to make sure the component is either in development mode or run off a commit with the code. SeeChoosing the code to run for your component.

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titleYou can use HTML to format the status - and we provide a simple STAT library to do just that

If you import the STATus library it has a couple of helper functions to format your code more nicely with HTML markup.

Import the library and try the code example:

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local Status = STATrow("Age", 14);
component.setStatus{data=Status}

Then when you look at the card you will see nicer formatting of this data:

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