Re: [Tile-dev] Progress bars

[Pat T. <pat...@us...>]

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Joe English wrote:
| We've had a progress bar widget for a while now,
| but it's lacking documentation and is missing a few
| features.  Some things I can think of that it needs:
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| + An "indeterminate" (aka "barber-pole") mode.  Currently
|   only the "determinate" (aka "thermometer") mode is supported.

muonics is currently dealing with this.

| Questions: Are the 'set' and 'get' methods really needed?
| They're equivalent to [$w configure -value] and [$w cget -value],
| respectively; or you can just access the linked -variable.

If I remember correctly, I basically just copied the interface from the
scale widget here. I see no problem rationalising the interface.

| The current implementation also has -font, -foreground,
| and -showvalue options (which don't do anything at the moment);
| and -command and -width options, which I don't think are
| needed either -- -width should be taken from the style,
| and -command isn't really useful for output-only widgets
| like this one.

As above. Its got these only because Tk's scale has them.

Pat Thoyts.
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