Uploading progress bar

2023-08-07 Thread Tim Selander via use-livecode
to add a progress bar to give some kind of user feedback as the upload can take 2 or 3 minutes. I've found several php scripts that do this, which look great but I have no idea how it works, but can anyone tell me how I could do this in LC? Any and all tips appreciated! Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan

Modern Mobile Progress Bar

2018-10-04 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Is there any way to get color to show on a native scrollbar (used as a progress bar for a download) on mobile? It show up with background fill black with barely visible thumbnail blue going across, changing the color in IDE has no effect on mobile. I think there is a mobile control, but as far I

Re: Vertical progress bar

2016-06-28 Thread [-hh]
Hit "D" to show a progress demo (running 0-100%). The check right of "D" lets you change the "base curve" (even while the progress is running). -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Vertical-progress-bar-tp4706135p4706157

Re: Vertical progress bar

2016-06-28 Thread Ali Lloyd
> I wonder how a 45 degree progress bar could be made? A progress bar widget with arbitrary rotation would be relatively easy, perhaps a good first widget project, should anyone be looking for such a thing. There's even some code for a progress bar widget lying around in the LiveCode GitHub r

Re: Vertical progress bar

2016-06-28 Thread Dar Scott
I make weird ones out of polygons. In this case, use one for the outline and one filled polygon for the progress. Group them and have a group property do the math. > On Jun 28, 2016, at 12:46 PM, Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I wonder how a 45 degree pro

Re: Vertical progress bar

2016-06-28 Thread rjd318
Wow! Is right =) I was already planning crazy stuff in my head as to how to do this (it wasn't going well) so thank you so much for the info! > On Jun 28, 2016, at 12:39 PM, Tore Nilsen wrote: > > If the rect is square the scrollbar/progressbar will be vertical. > > Tore

Re: Vertical progress bar

2016-06-28 Thread Richmond
I wonder how a 45 degree progress bar could be made? R. On 28.06.2016 21:44, Mark Wieder wrote: Tore Nilsen <tore.nilsen@...> writes: If the rect is square the scrollbar/progressbar will be vertical. Thanks. Laziness/procrastinati

Re: Vertical progress bar

2016-06-28 Thread Mark Wieder
Tore Nilsen writes: > If the rect is square the scrollbar/progressbar will be vertical. Thanks. Laziness/procrastination FTW. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Re: Vertical progress bar

2016-06-28 Thread Tore Nilsen
If the rect is square the scrollbar/progressbar will be vertical. Tore > 28. jun. 2016 kl. 19.34 skrev Mark Wieder : > > Dar Scott writes: > >> >> Wow! That is cool! How did you even discover this? > > Progressbars are a subclass of scrollbars. > You can

Re: Vertical progress bar

2016-06-28 Thread Mark Wieder
Dar Scott writes: > > Wow! That is cool! How did you even discover this? Progressbars are a subclass of scrollbars. You can have horizontal and vertical scrollbars. The rect determines which. (not sure what happens with squares) -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com

Re: Vertical progress bar

2016-06-28 Thread Tore Nilsen
u even discover this? > >> On Jun 28, 2016, at 10:55 AM, Tore Nilsen <tore.nil...@me.com> wrote: >> >> It is even easier, just make the height of the bounding rectangle higher >> than the width and you will have a vertical progress bar. >> >> Tore >>> 28.

Re: Vertical progress bar

2016-06-28 Thread Dar Scott
Wow! That is cool! How did you even discover this? > On Jun 28, 2016, at 10:55 AM, Tore Nilsen <tore.nil...@me.com> wrote: > > It is even easier, just make the height of the bounding rectangle higher than > the width and you will have a vertical progress bar. > >

Re: Vertical progress bar

2016-06-28 Thread Tore Nilsen
It is even easier, just make the height of the bounding rectangle higher than the width and you will have a vertical progress bar. Tore > 28. jun. 2016 kl. 18.50 skrev rjd318 <rjd...@gmail.com>: > > Hi all - I guess it's not as easy as rotating the existing progress bar > co

Vertical progress bar

2016-06-28 Thread rjd318
Hi all - I guess it's not as easy as rotating the existing progress bar control? Anyone know of a pre-existing technique to do this? - Jose ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

Anyone else notice the progress bar flickering in 7.0.2 rc 1 build 10024

2015-01-18 Thread Shawn Blc
Anyone else notice the progress bar flickering in 7.0.2 rc 1 build 10024 or is it just me? I'm on OSX, compiled a little app for windows and mac, and the progress bar flickers on both. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: Progress Bar

2014-09-18 Thread Paul Hibbert
of the option. This helps a lot when looking for property names, they are all right there in the inspector, but it's an easy step to overlook. HTH Paul On Sep 17, 2014, at 10:03 PM, JB sund...@pacifier.com wrote: How do I set the end value of a progress bar by code instead of the inspector? John

Re: Progress Bar

2014-09-18 Thread JB
, at 10:03 PM, JB sund...@pacifier.com wrote: How do I set the end value of a progress bar by code instead of the inspector? John Balgenorth ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe

Progress Bar

2014-09-17 Thread JB
How do I set the end value of a progress bar by code instead of the inspector? John Balgenorth ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http

Re: Progress Bar

2014-09-17 Thread JB
I set the end value of a progress bar by code instead of the inspector? John Balgenorth ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http

Progress Bar

2013-10-09 Thread Mark Wieder
http://boingboing.net/2013/10/08/progressbar-a-short-film.html -- Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Progress bar color

2013-03-07 Thread Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel
Is there a way to change the default color of the progress bar to any color other than green? For instance, I would like it to be red until it gets to 100% and then it turns green. SKIP ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: Progress bar color

2013-03-07 Thread Monte Goulding
Here you go: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15282648/can-i-change-the-default-color-of-a-progress-bar-in-livecode/15282649#15282649 On 08/03/2013, at 8:50 AM, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel s...@magicgate.com wrote: Is there a way to change the default color of the progress bar to any

Re: Progress bar color

2013-03-07 Thread Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel
Thank you Monte... was hoping I could do it with the built in control. Guess I will have to use a custom progress bar if I want to do this. SKIP On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.comwrote: Here you go: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15282648/can-i

Re: [ANN] New custom control OS X Lion async png progress bar (on RevOnline)

2012-07-20 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Jul 19, 2012, at 11:18 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Ah, but everything about a computer application is an illusion anyway, isn't it? One geek to another: 'Go outside, the graphics are amazing!' -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig

[ANN] New custom control OS X Lion async png progress bar (on RevOnline)

2012-07-19 Thread Rolf Kocherhans
I was also testing RevOnline with a Stack (157K) and the upload worked :-) ! LiveCode does not give us the nice blue animated progress bar Lion has, the one we have - is only static ! I never liked this, animated progress bars make the user believe that the waiting time is up to 11% shorter

Re: [ANN] New custom control OS X Lion async png progress bar (on RevOnline)

2012-07-19 Thread Bob Sneidar
Ah, but everything about a computer application is an illusion anyway, isn't it? Bob On Jul 19, 2012, at 2:50 AM, Rolf Kocherhans wrote: I was also testing RevOnline with a Stack (157K) and the upload worked :-) ! LiveCode does not give us the nice blue animated progress bar Lion has

Progress Bar colors...

2012-05-22 Thread Paul Dupuis
Okay, I have a very basic question I seem unable to find an answer to in the LiveCode docs: What property controls the color of the progress indicator itself in progress bars? -- Paul Dupuis Cofounder Researchware, Inc. http://www.researchware.com/ http://www.twitter.com/researchware

Re: Progress Bar colors...

2012-05-22 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Paul, As far as I know, the operating system controls that. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 We will have room for new projects after 1 June.

Re: Progress Bar colors...

2012-05-22 Thread Bob Sneidar
I put the keys of the properties of a scrollbar in the message. There is a colors property but it seems to be empty. I do not think you can change the color of a scrollbar, which is probably why others have decided to roll their own in the past. Bob On May 22, 2012, at 1:39 PM, Paul Dupuis

Re: Progress Bar colors...

2012-05-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Schonewille wrote: On 22 mei 2012, at 22:39, Paul Dupuis wrote: What property controls the color of the progress indicator itself in progress bars? As far as I know, the operating system controls that. The modern engine rendering uses the OS to draw those, but you can revert to the

Re: Progress Bar colors...

2012-05-22 Thread Paul Dupuis
Thank you everyone for the responses. Thank you Richard for the excellent enhancement request. I added some votes to it. On 5/22/2012 5:14 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8017 -- Paul Dupuis Cofounder Researchware, Inc. http://www.researchware.com/

Re: Progress Bar

2012-03-31 Thread Geoff Canyon
I'll throw my 2 cents in here as well -- I've found that it doesn't impact performance significantly to check ticks() each time through the loop. So instead of a fixed number of iterations, which can lead to a jumpy progress bar or excessive updates if what you're doing in the loop varies much

Re: Progress Bar

2012-03-31 Thread Pete
ticks() each time through the loop. So instead of a fixed number of iterations, which can lead to a jumpy progress bar or excessive updates if what you're doing in the loop varies much, I do this: if ticks() T then --update the progress bar put ticks() + 10 into T -- your choice how smooth

Re: Progress Bar

2012-03-30 Thread Pete
Those quantum guys are such pranksters! Pete On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Peter M. Brigham, MD pmb...@gmail.comwrote: On Mar 29, 2012, at 6:56 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: Its a particle.. Its a wave! its a particle. Its a wave! Its a cat in a box! Coincidence -- someone just sent me

Re: Progress Bar

2012-03-30 Thread Peter M. Brigham, MD
On Mar 30, 2012, at 12:29 PM, Pete wrote: Those quantum guys are such pranksters! or not! -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Progress Bar

2012-03-29 Thread Pete
I'm using a progress bar for the first time. Checked it all out stepping through things in debug and all worked fine. However, when I run it normally (meaning no debug), the blue progress bar never moves beyond it's startpos. I'm pretty sure this is because I'm updating it in a tight loop

RE: Progress Bar

2012-03-29 Thread John Dixon
Would a line like 'wait 0 millisecs with messages' in the loop help ? I'm using a progress bar for the first time. Checked it all out stepping through things in debug and all worked fine. However, when I run it normally (meaning no debug), the blue progress bar never moves beyond it's

Re: Progress Bar

2012-03-29 Thread Bob Sneidar
Ditto to what they said. For an explanation, the progress bar will only update during an idle time. While scripts are running, there is no idle time. The wait with messages gives the engine the idle time it needs to do it's thing. Bob On Mar 29, 2012, at 3:03 PM, Pete wrote: I'm using

Re: Progress Bar

2012-03-29 Thread Pete
Thanks guys. I put a wait 0 in there and that made the progress bar update visible. Seems kinda weird that there's a difference between not waiting and waiting zero, but that's OK! This does lead to an interesting conundrum though. It takes about 2.5 times longer to process my test data

Re: Progress Bar

2012-03-29 Thread Mike Bonner
Its a particle.. Its a wave! its a particle. Its a wave! Its a cat in a box! Isn't there some rule of quantum physics about changing the outocme of an experiment by observing it? Pete ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Re: Progress Bar

2012-03-29 Thread Bob Sneidar
bar update visible. Seems kinda weird that there's a difference between not waiting and waiting zero, but that's OK! This does lead to an interesting conundrum though. It takes about 2.5 times longer to process my test data with a progress bar than without one. Not talking huge amounts of time

Re: Progress Bar

2012-03-29 Thread Scott Rossi
Hi Pete: Locking the screen is one way to speed things up, if you're not already doing that, but make sure you unlock at the end of the loop, and relock at the beginning. Another method that can help facilitate processing is to NOT update the progress bar in every loop. Use a counter

Re: Progress Bar

2012-03-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Pete wrote: It takes about 2.5 times longer to process my test data with a progress bar than without one. ... I calculate the update interval by dividing the number of records to be processed by 100 with a minimum of 10 to deal with small data sets. I guess maybe I can play around

Re: Progress Bar

2012-03-29 Thread Bob Sneidar
29, 2012, at 16:36, Pete p...@mollysrevenge.com wrote: Thanks Scott and Richard. I think I've got my algorithm to determine when to update the progress bar nicely tuned now. I'm a little confused by the lock screen thing though. Isn't lock screen for when you don't want screen changes

Re: Progress Bar

2012-03-29 Thread Bob Sneidar
Pete, if you only need a progress bar for Mac, I can update my spinner standalone to have a progress bar. That way the progress bar will continue to animate, since it would be independent of the livecode IDE, or anything else for that matter. Let me know if you are interested. Bob Sneidar

Re: Progress Bar

2012-03-29 Thread Peter M. Brigham, MD
On Mar 29, 2012, at 6:56 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: Its a particle.. Its a wave! its a particle. Its a wave! Its a cat in a box! Coincidence -- someone just sent me today a cartoon: a fake poster: Reward! $1,000,000,000 Schroedinger's Cat Wanted Dead and Alive -- Peter Peter M. Brigham

Re: Independent Progress Bar

2011-12-15 Thread Mark Wieder
Bob Sneidar bobs@... writes: Maybe someone at Runrev will ask me to write up an article about it! Why wait? Write up the article and send it to Heather for the newsletter. -- Mark Wieder ___ use-livecode mailing list

Independent Progress Bar

2011-12-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi all. I know this has been discussed in length in the past, but I cannot remember what the conclusion was. Does anyone have/know about an independent progress bar/wheel that can be used with Livecode, that will function independently even when Livecode is running a script? I know I could

Re: Independent Progress Bar

2011-12-14 Thread René Micout
Sneidar a écrit : Hi all. I know this has been discussed in length in the past, but I cannot remember what the conclusion was. Does anyone have/know about an independent progress bar/wheel that can be used with Livecode, that will function independently even when Livecode is running a script

Re: Independent Progress Bar

2011-12-14 Thread René Micout
can use a gif, see here : http://www.ajaxload.info/ René Le 14 déc. 2011 à 19:15, Bob Sneidar a écrit : Hi all. I know this has been discussed in length in the past, but I cannot remember what the conclusion was. Does anyone have/know about an independent progress bar/wheel that can

Re: Independent Progress Bar

2011-12-14 Thread stephen barncard
this has been discussed in length in the past, but I cannot remember what the conclusion was. Does anyone have/know about an independent progress bar/wheel that can be used with Livecode, that will function independently even when Livecode is running a script? I know I could kludge it myself

Re: Independent Progress Bar

2011-12-14 Thread René Micout
, see here : http://www.ajaxload.info/ René Le 14 déc. 2011 à 19:15, Bob Sneidar a écrit : Hi all. I know this has been discussed in length in the past, but I cannot remember what the conclusion was. Does anyone have/know about an independent progress bar/wheel that can be used

Re: Independent Progress Bar

2011-12-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
19:15, Bob Sneidar a écrit : Hi all. I know this has been discussed in length in the past, but I cannot remember what the conclusion was. Does anyone have/know about an independent progress bar/wheel that can be used with Livecode, that will function independently even when Livecode

Re: Independent Progress Bar

2011-12-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
://www.ajaxload.info/ René Le 14 déc. 2011 à 19:15, Bob Sneidar a écrit : Hi all. I know this has been discussed in length in the past, but I cannot remember what the conclusion was. Does anyone have/know about an independent progress bar/wheel that can be used with Livecode, that will function

Re: Independent Progress Bar

2011-12-14 Thread stephen barncard
all. I know this has been discussed in length in the past, but I cannot remember what the conclusion was. Does anyone have/know about an independent progress bar/wheel that can be used with Livecode, that will function independently even when Livecode is running a script? I know I could

Re: Independent Progress Bar

2011-12-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
FWIW: Asynchronous GIF playback http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7600 -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog:

Re: Independent Progress Bar

2011-12-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
Voted for it. Not too many people seem to be using this system though. Bob On Dec 14, 2011, at 12:48 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: FWIW: Asynchronous GIF playback http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7600 -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting:

Re: Independent Progress Bar

2011-12-14 Thread stephen barncard
I would use them if they worked. These would be awesome little indicator packages, if we don't overuse it like blinking in old web sites. Browsers seem to do this with little cpu load. Remember Imageready? On 14 December 2011 13:05, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: Voted for it. Not too many

Re: Independent Progress Bar

2011-12-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
Well some may have missed it, but I was saying that I created a standalone, and all it does is display a window that has no title bar, with a message and a spinning gif. I use it when I am opening an app that uses SQL to give the user something to look at while the connection is made and

Re: Independent Progress Bar

2011-12-14 Thread Mike Bonner
If its apple only, can you use send to program to control your twirly stack? No mac here anymore so can't try it. On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 4:57 PM, stephen barncard stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com wrote: one way to achieve multi-tasking. Actually brilliant. What is the size of that little

Re: Independent Progress Bar

2011-12-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
3.5 Megabytes. Very small. I will send you the stack and the standalone direct. The prompt is in Belgium type. I hope you have that. If not it will revert to default I guess. Bob On Dec 14, 2011, at 3:57 PM, stephen barncard wrote: one way to achieve multi-tasking. Actually brilliant.

Re: Independent Progress Bar

2011-12-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
So anyway, this is fairly simple to implement, I have it working, but I still have to use an Applescript command to tell it to launch. All other interactions can be done using send to program and trapping the apple event using on appleEvent. By setting the systemWindow of the stack to true

RE: Independent Progress Bar

2011-12-14 Thread FlexibleLearning
If you mean an indeterminate progress indicator then yes, use an animated gif with the judicious use of repeatCount (-1 to start and 0 to stop). If you want a modal progress bar that works independently (as in non-blocking) then open the modal invisible first and increment your own bar

[ANN] Data Grid Helper 1.5.1 - iOS Date Picker and Progress Bar controls are now supported

2011-11-11 Thread zryip theSlug
Dear LiveCode DGH Users, A new update for DGH is available. What we have for you in this new 1.5.1 version? First, we have added the support of two new controls in the DGH's column and form builders: - the iOS Date Picker - the Progress Bar For more information about implementing these two

barber pole progress bar?

2011-04-16 Thread Kee Nethery
How do I do a barber pole progress bar? I know that I should not use the set cursor to busy command in a Mac OS X app because that now signifies that the system is hung (thanks everyone for teaching me the proper way). I know instead I should use a progress bar. All well and good but ... I

Re: barber pole progress bar?

2011-04-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 4/16/11 12:17 PM, Kee Nethery wrote: How do I do a barber pole progress bar? Look in the image library that ships with LiveCode (Development-Image Library.) There are several barber poles in there. They are just animated gif images, and when you need one you just show it. -- Jacqueline

Re: barber pole progress bar?

2011-04-16 Thread stephen barncard
set the cursor to busy still works but is not the colorful and dreaded spinning pizza you mentioned. It is the ancient monochrome one, and it still is useful if not ugly. On 16 April 2011 10:17, Kee Nethery k...@kagi.com wrote: How do I do a barber pole progress bar? I know that I should

Re: barber pole progress bar?

2011-04-16 Thread Kee Nethery
doh! hand slap to forehead. I was pretty sure I checked those images previously but obviously not because ... they are there. Thanks! Kee On Apr 16, 2011, at 11:51 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 4/16/11 12:17 PM, Kee Nethery wrote: How do I do a barber pole progress bar? Look in the image

Re: Progress bar

2011-01-18 Thread AndyP
efficient to use a function for this but this will get you running. - Andy Piddock My software never has bugs. It just develops random features. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Progress-bar-tp3221250p3221324.html Sent from the Revolution - User

Re: Progress bar

2011-01-18 Thread AndyP
efficient to use a function for this but this will get you running. - Andy Piddock My software never has bugs. It just develops random features. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Progress-bar-tp3221250p3221325.html Sent from the Revolution - User

Re: Progress bar

2011-01-18 Thread lowland
Hi Andy, This works but when I add if the hilite of btn Check2 is true then... on the next card, the progress bar dose not move and when I un-check on any of the cards the bar shows no progress at all. Steve -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com