Real Mac Progress Bars

[andrewferguson]

Hi,
OK, here is my request.
On LiveCode for Mac, the progress bars do not "ripple", (there are not waves moving to the left). Instead, the progress bars have still ripples. (They do not move.)
Anyway, let me know your thoughts on this.
Andrew

[Klaus]

Hi Andrew,

one of the kickstarter stretch goals is porting Livecode to Cocoa!
I am sure THEN we will have "real" Mac OS X UI elements

But don't ask me when this will happen...


Best

Klaus

[bn]

Hi Andrew,

Rolf Kocherhans posted 2 progress bar stacks on revOnline, one for up to snow leopard, one for lion.
http://livecodeshare.runrev.com/
search for Kocherhans

here is my take on this, entirely made of graphics with the use of gradients:

OSXProgressGradient IIII.rev.zip

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for native progress bars: as Klaus said

Kind regards
Bernd

[andrewferguson]

Hi,
Thanks Bernd! Thats is a really realistic progress bar! How long did that take?
Andrew

[bn]

Hi Andrew,

How long did that take?

It was more an exercise in pushing the gradients of a graphic to do some less obvious things. I "fell in love" with gradients when they came out. Since it was part of a exploring it did take a long time...
(I put some gradient related stuff up on revOnline or user samples or livecodeshare)

I probably would not use the progress bar I posted as a progress bar since it stops if you do computationally intensive calculation and that is what you use progress bars for. You would have to give room for refreshes in your long computation.
Rolf uses gif images and they keep on turning.

So although one can fake a native progress bar nothing beats the real thing.

Kind regards
Bernd