better progress bar

[Samuele]

Hi, is there a way to make a better-looking scrollbar? For example a round scrollbar instead of a line...
Thanks!

[richmond62]

There is always a way to make anything you want, but it takes a lot more work
than using the one offered by the IDE.

However, I don't really understand what you mean by "a round scrollbar", so, how about uploading an image to help?
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Basic LiveCode scrollbar

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[Klaus]

Here is a lesson from the mothership:
https://lessons.livecode.com/m/4071/l/2 ... m-controls

[richmond62]

Interestingly enough:

1. The example stack contains a scrollbar that is not a particular aesthetic advance on the inbuilt one.

2. It threw a "bluey" as soon as I tried to move the scroll tab.
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The lesson may help with designing one's own scrollBar.

[Klaus]

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2. It threw a "bluey" as soon as I tried to move the scroll tab.

Sorry, didn't know.
Leave a comment on the page.

[Samuele]

sorryyyyyy!!!, i meant the progress bar, I got confused

[richmond62]

I got confused

I do that all the time.
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[Samuele]

I got confused

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How you did that? For me it won't even round up!

[Klaus]

Scrollbars and prograss bars are "borrowed" from the underlying OS.
So Richmonds screenshot just shows how a "regular" progress bar looks on a Apple Mac machine.

[Samuele]

ahaaa, so it's android's fault that for android they don't look good

[Klaus]

No it is even worse!

Since LC does not support native controls on the mobile platform out of the box, it uses here
the "Motif" look and feel (Theme) which unfortunately looks like on a UNIX machine in the early 80s!

[Samuele]

yes you're right that design is quite awful.
so you're saying i can't do nothing about it?

[Klaus]

You cannot do anything with the BUILT-IN progressbars, but to create your own.

[dunbarx]

What Klaus said.

Make your own. It will be fun and a very good exercise. Let us know if you need help starting. There are a million ways to do it, all with ordinary controls taken right out of the tools palette.

Craig

[Samuele]

What Klaus said.

Make your own. It will be fun and a very good exercise. Let us know if you need help starting. There are a million ways to do it, all with ordinary controls taken right out of the tools palette.

Craig

yep thanks, i didn't even know you can create your own! how do i start?
Thanks!