Re: [Tile-dev] Progress bars

[Michael K. <mi...@mu...>]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Joe English wrote:

> + Animation.  On Aqua and on some KDE themes (depending on
>  the user's preferred eye candy level) thermometer-style
>  progress bars have an additional pulsing/throbbing effect,
>  presumably to let the user know that the program hasn't
>  locked up even if the bar isn't otherwise moving.
>  Michael Kirkham (muonics) has a patch that implements this
>  on OSX.

The latest version of the patch submitted a little while ago implements 
barber-pole style indeterminate progress bars for other themes except clam 
(any that doesn't already have its own progress widget, I think), too. 
Still needs a few tweaks, but it's functional.

Indeterminate mode is obtained by setting -from and -to both to 0.  As 
long as both have value 0, it will animate a barberpole.  Change either to 
non-zero and it will switch to a regular progress bar (showing just a 
track if the "set" value is <= -from).

If anyone wants to play with it the current patch is at:

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1144673&group_id=11464&atid=311464

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Michael Kirkham
www.muonics.com