Re: ProgressIndicator Questions
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- Subject: [mg82302] Re: ProgressIndicator Questions
- From: "Kevin J. McCann" <Kevin.McCann at umbc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:02:11 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: University System of Maryland
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Well, to confuse things even more. I am running 6.0.1 on XP and I do get
the green on white and it seems to perform as desired.
ProgressIndicator[Dynamic[2 - Clock[2]], {0, 2}, ImageSize -> {75, 10}]
Kevin
Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> No green here! Under Windows XP, the ProgressIndicator bar is all
> grayscale. Your first two examples show gray diagonal stripes shading
> into white. The third example shows a solid, dark gray bar next to a
> white bar, with shrinkage of the dark gray portion as time increases.
>
> I presume you're working on a different platform? Or, if under Windows
> XP, with a different theme?
>
> David Park wrote:
>> I would like to use a ProgressIndicator, not to indicate progress in a
>> calculation, but to represent the transmission of information in a given
>> direction. Here is an example from ProgressIndicator Help that indicates the
>> type of display that I want:
>>
>> ProgressIndicator[Dynamic[Clock[Infinity]], Indeterminate]
>>
>> However, I want the ProgressIndicator to be much smaller and, as it would
>> be, I want the information flow in the opposite direction. If I make the
>> ProgressIndicator smaller there is no green portion to indicate a flow at
>> all.
>>
>> ProgressIndicator[Dynamic[Clock[Infinity]], Indeterminate,
>> ImageSize -> {75, 10}]
>>
>> I suspect this may be related to the width of the green portion and the
>> width of the ProgressIndicator.
>>
>> I can obtain a kind of right to left flow with the following construction:
>>
>> ProgressIndicator[Dynamic[2 - Clock[2]], {0, 2},
>> ImageSize -> {75, 10}]
>>
>> My questions are:
>> 1) Is it possible to change the green and gray colors?
>> 2) Or better, is it possible to specify the width of the ProgressIndicator
>> AND the location and width of the green region independently?
>>
>> Or are there any suggestions for independently constructing a flow
>> indicator, perhaps one that had the kind of shading that the
>> ProgressIndicator has?
>>
>> Thanks for any help on this.
>>
>>
>
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