Re: NSProgressIndicator indeterminate

[Tom Doan]

> On Apr 13, 2017, at 13:35 , Tom Doan  wrote:
> > 
> > the indeterminate one has an almost imperceptibly lighter
> > medium-dark moving over medium-dark.
> 
> This suggests you have set your system appearance to Graphite instead
> of Blue (in System Preferences -> General), and it may well be that in
> the graphite version it´s harder to see the animation than in the
> default blue. Your physical environment (lighting conditions, monitor
> age, etc) might also have some effect on what you see. However, it´s
> hard to say whether your users will or will not see the animation.
> 
> IMO, it´s not worth worrying about the problem. Apple has decided
> that this new style of indeterminate progress is suitable, so it´s
> not your fault if they´re wrong. Anything clever you do to change
> the appearance could easily break the next time Apple tweaks control
> appearances.
> 
> If you feel that it´s going to be a problem for users, then you
> could use the spinning version of the indeterminate progress control,
> instead of or in addition to the bar version.

Thanks. I do indeed have Graphite rather than Blue, though Blue is 
same basic problem in Blue. However, the spinning wheel works 
fine, so I switched to that.

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NSProgressIndicator indeterminate

[Tom Doan]

I've been using determinate NSProgressIndicators for years and 
those seem to work fine. I recently added a indeterminate one for a 
particular operation. On first (and second and third) takes, I thought 
it wasn't working. Then I looked *really* closely and found that there 
actually is a *very* slight gradient moving across the bar. While the 
determinate bar is medium-dark gray moving over light gray, the 
indeterminate one has an almost imperceptibly lighter medium-dark 
moving over medium-dark. This seems less than ideal. Is there 
some setting that can change that?

Tom Doan
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