Can/should plugins modify the text in the status bar?

[psifertex]

Right now, BackgroundThreads will automatically show up in the status bar and can set their status there. Is there another recommended way to allow a plugin to add elements to the status bar?

[psifertex]

We don't have any convenient helper UIs for this, nor do we plan to add any as we believe it's not a good UI design pattern to encourage, however you can easily do this using standard QT code like:

from PySide6.QtWidgets import QLabel
from binaryninjaui import UIContext
from binaryninja import execute_on_main_thread

def updateStatus():
  # There are some garbage collection issues if you don't
  # save references to at least some of the below which is why 
  # they're being captured to variabes
  ctx = UIContext.activeContext()
  mw = ctx.mainWindow()
  sb = mw.statusBar()
  sb.addWidget(QLabel("TEST"))

# DO NOT try to directly interact from the UI on any thread from the main thread
execute_on_main_thread(updateStatus)