This progress bar editor is to be used with Mike’s Scriptable Progress Bar. Its use should be fairly straightforward: play with the controls and the changes are immediately visible on the progress bar. The next time you boot up Mike’s Scriptable Progress Bar, your newly styled progress bar appears.
Important notes:
• Sometimes you may pick a color which doesn’t make good 3-D shades (i.e., the lighter and darker shades it makes are actually different colors). Too much saturation in the color seems to be problem. To avoid this, choose a color with less saturation, closer to the center of the wheel.
• When it first boots up, the editor will ask you to locate Mike’s Scriptable Progress Bar. Unfortunately, it will list any application, so make sure you choose the progress bar app. (If you don’t choose an application, or you choose the wrong one, it will just load up the hard-wired defaults. If you want to save, or get the defaults again, it will ask you to choose the application again.)
• The configuration created by the progress bar editor can be overridden by AppleScript commands.
• If you would like to see any other element customizable in the editor, let me know.
• Sorry the user interface is a little clunky right now; it will get better with time. (For example, the open box will have the request instead of it being in a separate dialog box, and you’ll be able to drag the scriptable bar right on to the editor.)
Credits:
3-D buttons courtesy of Zig Zichterman
Sliders courtesy of Jonathan E. Durkee
Legal Stuff:
Mike’s Progress Bar Editor may be freely distributed, as long as it is not distributed apart from this archive. It is freeware, though Mike’s Scriptable Progress Bar is not (read the restrictions in its Read Me file). There are absolutely no warranties included with this software. Use at your own risk.
Bugs:
If you find bugs, let me know immediately! Thanks!
