better progress bar
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better progress bar
Hi, is there a way to make a better-looking scrollbar? For example a round scrollbar instead of a line...
Thanks!
Thanks!
Last edited by Samuele on Thu Jan 27, 2022 5:12 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: better scrollbar
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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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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Last edited by richmond62 on Thu Jan 27, 2022 1:17 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Re: better scrollbar
Here is a lesson from the mothership:
https://lessons.livecode.com/m/4071/l/2 ... m-controls
https://lessons.livecode.com/m/4071/l/2 ... m-controls
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Re: better scrollbar
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.
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.
Re: better scrollbar
Sorry, didn't know.richmond62 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 27, 2022 1:19 pm...
2. It threw a "bluey" as soon as I tried to move the scroll tab.
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Re: better progress bar
I do that all the time.I got confused
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Re: better progress bar
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.
So Richmonds screenshot just shows how a "regular" progress bar looks on a Apple Mac machine.
Re: better progress bar
ahaaa, so it's android's fault that for android they don't look good
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Re: better progress bar
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!
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!
Re: better progress bar
yes you're right that design is quite awful.
so you're saying i can't do nothing about it?
so you're saying i can't do nothing about it?
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Re: better progress bar
You cannot do anything with the BUILT-IN progressbars, but to create your own.
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Re: better progress bar
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
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
Re: better progress bar
yep thanks, i didn't even know you can create your own! how do i start?
Thanks!
Samuele.