Issue I406 [enhancement,resolved] New simion.status Lua function to display text on status bar The simion.status command now displays a message on the status bar: simion.status("hello!") Related to request by jasons-20070529 for TOF display during ion flight: http://www.simion.com/discuss/viewtopic?p=1620 Example usage in Lua workbench user program: simion.workbench_program() local last_status = 0 local status_each_usec = 1 -- time (microseconds) between update function segment.other_actions() if abs(ion_time_of_flight - last_status) >= status_each_usec then simion.status(ion_time_of_flight) last_status = ion_time_of_flight end end Resolved in 8.0.4-TEST1