Comments on: Toxic Progress Indicator http://toxicsoftware.com/toxic_progress_indicator/ RANDOMIZE USR 0 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:12:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: R.I.P Toxic Progress Indicator http://toxicsoftware.com/toxic_progress_indicator/comment-page-1/#comment-21457 R.I.P Toxic Progress Indicator Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:18:31 +0000 http://toxicsoftware.com/blog/toxic_progress_indicator/#comment-21457 <p>[...] NSProgressIndicator for the circular/determinate modes. This style is new to Leopard. This means my Toxic Progress Indicator class can be retired, at least for 10.5+ only applications. Leopard has really helped to retire a [...]</p> [...] NSProgressIndicator for the circular/determinate modes. This style is new to Leopard. This means my Toxic Progress Indicator class can be retired, at least for 10.5+ only applications. Leopard has really helped to retire a [...]

]]> By: schwa http://toxicsoftware.com/toxic_progress_indicator/comment-page-1/#comment-22093 schwa Sat, 30 Jun 2007 21:30:22 +0000 http://toxicsoftware.com/blog/toxic_progress_indicator/#comment-22093 <p>Yeah no clue how it will work when accessed via AppleScript. Good luck and let me know what you find.</p> Yeah no clue how it will work when accessed via AppleScript. Good luck and let me know what you find.

]]> By: schwa http://toxicsoftware.com/toxic_progress_indicator/comment-page-1/#comment-20031 schwa Sat, 30 Jun 2007 20:30:22 +0000 http://toxicsoftware.com/blog/toxic_progress_indicator/#comment-20031 <p>Yeah no clue how it will work when accessed via AppleScript. Good luck and let me know what you find.</p> Yeah no clue how it will work when accessed via AppleScript. Good luck and let me know what you find.

]]> By: Uncle Foobar http://toxicsoftware.com/toxic_progress_indicator/comment-page-1/#comment-22092 Uncle Foobar Sun, 17 Jun 2007 09:40:13 +0000 http://toxicsoftware.com/blog/toxic_progress_indicator/#comment-22092 <p>Hi;<br><br>i really like your pie spinny; not sure why Apple doesn't include Mail's pie and other IB features in IB...<br><br>Here's the thing: i'm trying to access your pie after pulling it off the pallette and setting it to spinner / determinate.<br><br>I want to access it in AppleScript though; I'm a beginner so i'm not sure <em>what</em> to ask for / a snippet of code perhaps? <br><br>I'm trying: start progress indicator "tpie" of window 1 which works for spinners and progress bars; i guess with the definate nature i need to increment or something (count...progress...finish)<br><br>Foob</p> Hi;

i really like your pie spinny; not sure why Apple doesn't include Mail's pie and other IB features in IB…

Here's the thing: i'm trying to access your pie after pulling it off the pallette and setting it to spinner / determinate.

I want to access it in AppleScript though; I'm a beginner so i'm not sure what to ask for / a snippet of code perhaps?

I'm trying: start progress indicator “tpie” of window 1 which works for spinners and progress bars; i guess with the definate nature i need to increment or something (count…progress…finish)

Foob

]]> By: Uncle Foobar http://toxicsoftware.com/toxic_progress_indicator/comment-page-1/#comment-18508 Uncle Foobar Sun, 17 Jun 2007 08:40:13 +0000 http://toxicsoftware.com/blog/toxic_progress_indicator/#comment-18508 <p>Hi;</p> <p>i really like your pie spinny; not sure why Apple doesn't include Mail's pie and other IB features in IB...</p> <p>Here's the thing: i'm trying to access your pie after pulling it off the pallette and setting it to spinner / determinate.</p> <p>I want to access it in AppleScript though; I'm a beginner so i'm not sure <em>what</em> to ask for / a snippet of code perhaps?</p> <p>I'm trying: start progress indicator "tpie" of window 1 which works for spinners and progress bars; i guess with the definate nature i need to increment or something (count...progress...finish)</p> <p>Foob</p> Hi;

i really like your pie spinny; not sure why Apple doesn’t include Mail’s pie and other IB features in IB…

Here’s the thing: i’m trying to access your pie after pulling it off the pallette and setting it to spinner / determinate.

I want to access it in AppleScript though; I’m a beginner so i’m not sure what to ask for / a snippet of code perhaps?

I’m trying: start progress indicator “tpie” of window 1 which works for spinners and progress bars; i guess with the definate nature i need to increment or something (count…progress…finish)

Foob

]]> By: Fancy Windows, &c. « Important Shock http://toxicsoftware.com/toxic_progress_indicator/comment-page-1/#comment-2593 Fancy Windows, &c. « Important Shock Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:19:17 +0000 http://toxicsoftware.com/blog/toxic_progress_indicator/#comment-2593 <p>[...] Lately, inspired by John Gruber’s recent assertions that the Apple Human Interface Guidelines are no longer relevant (a good summary can be found here), the new, fancier widgets made by various Cocoa developers have come into the spotlight. Daniel Jalkut, a Very Cool Guy, developed a bunch of very nifty widgets while revamping the interface for his unbelievably cool application FlexTime, and was so kind as to blog about his thought process while doing it. His blog entry pointed me to Matt Gemmell’s enormous stack of custom-made widgets, replete with shiny screenshots. My interest piqued, I fired up Google and found Sean Patrick O’Brien’s iLifeControls framework, a class-dumped version of Disco’s Smoke framework, Toxic Software’s Toxic Progress Indicator and TXTableView, Chad Weider’s badging and gradient code, Blake Seely’s BSRoundedBox, Andy Matuschak’s Polished Metal buttons, AMViewAnimation, and OpenHUD framework, Andreas M.’s jaw-dropping amount of custom widgets, Erling Ellingsen’s CGSWindowWarp exposé, John Pannell’s PSMTabBarControls, Uli’s freakin’ plethora of awesome doodads, Rainer Brockerhoff’s RBSplitView, and Ankur Kothari’s CoreGraphics framework. [...]</p> [...] Lately, inspired by John Gruber’s recent assertions that the Apple Human Interface Guidelines are no longer relevant (a good summary can be found here), the new, fancier widgets made by various Cocoa developers have come into the spotlight. Daniel Jalkut, a Very Cool Guy, developed a bunch of very nifty widgets while revamping the interface for his unbelievably cool application FlexTime, and was so kind as to blog about his thought process while doing it. His blog entry pointed me to Matt Gemmell’s enormous stack of custom-made widgets, replete with shiny screenshots. My interest piqued, I fired up Google and found Sean Patrick O’Brien’s iLifeControls framework, a class-dumped version of Disco’s Smoke framework, Toxic Software’s Toxic Progress Indicator and TXTableView, Chad Weider’s badging and gradient code, Blake Seely’s BSRoundedBox, Andy Matuschak’s Polished Metal buttons, AMViewAnimation, and OpenHUD framework, Andreas M.’s jaw-dropping amount of custom widgets, Erling Ellingsen’s CGSWindowWarp exposé, John Pannell’s PSMTabBarControls, Uli’s freakin’ plethora of awesome doodads, Rainer Brockerhoff’s RBSplitView, and Ankur Kothari’s CoreGraphics framework. [...]

]]> By: Red Sweater Blog - Flex Your HIG http://toxicsoftware.com/toxic_progress_indicator/comment-page-1/#comment-2103 Red Sweater Blog - Flex Your HIG Mon, 06 Nov 2006 15:24:44 +0000 http://toxicsoftware.com/blog/toxic_progress_indicator/#comment-2103 <p>[...] My first thought was to simply reuse the excellent pie chart cell I use for the table content, which is based on Jon Wight’s Toxic Progress Indicator. I allocated one, configured it appropriately, and then “setHeaderCell:” on the NSTableColumn. This sorta kinda worked, but there were major drawbacks. First, the drawing of the pie chart at that size revealed aliasing problems that didn’t really look polished. I’d have to edit the code to improve the compositing over the background, or something. Second, when you take over responsibility as a header cell, you take over all responsibility. You’ve got to draw that cute polished background, in addition to the content. Now I’m sure I could have gotten this all to work, by employing the existing default table header cell to do some of the heavy lifting, or by subclassing it. But I heard a little voice in my head screaming “overengineering!” so I took a step back. Paul Kim pointed out that I could simply “setImage:” on the existing header cell, and it would draw it for me, nicely composited over the polished background. Why go to the trouble of dynamically generating a pie chart image when one put together in PhotoShop will look just as good and be 100% predictable? [...]</p> [...] My first thought was to simply reuse the excellent pie chart cell I use for the table content, which is based on Jon Wight’s Toxic Progress Indicator. I allocated one, configured it appropriately, and then “setHeaderCell:” on the NSTableColumn. This sorta kinda worked, but there were major drawbacks. First, the drawing of the pie chart at that size revealed aliasing problems that didn’t really look polished. I’d have to edit the code to improve the compositing over the background, or something. Second, when you take over responsibility as a header cell, you take over all responsibility. You’ve got to draw that cute polished background, in addition to the content. Now I’m sure I could have gotten this all to work, by employing the existing default table header cell to do some of the heavy lifting, or by subclassing it. But I heard a little voice in my head screaming “overengineering!” so I took a step back. Paul Kim pointed out that I could simply “setImage:” on the existing header cell, and it would draw it for me, nicely composited over the polished background. Why go to the trouble of dynamically generating a pie chart image when one put together in PhotoShop will look just as good and be 100% predictable? [...]

]]> By: Chad Weider http://toxicsoftware.com/toxic_progress_indicator/comment-page-1/#comment-22091 Chad Weider Sun, 03 Sep 2006 07:00:43 +0000 http://toxicsoftware.com/blog/toxic_progress_indicator/#comment-22091 <p>Point taken. Hopefully the new "pseudo-captcha" I've installed will work better next time around.</p> Point taken. Hopefully the new “pseudo-captcha” I've installed will work better next time around.

]]> By: Chad Weider http://toxicsoftware.com/toxic_progress_indicator/comment-page-1/#comment-1047 Chad Weider Sun, 03 Sep 2006 06:00:43 +0000 http://toxicsoftware.com/blog/toxic_progress_indicator/#comment-1047 <p>Point taken. Hopefully the new "pseudo-captcha" I've installed will work better next time around.</p> Point taken. Hopefully the new “pseudo-captcha” I’ve installed will work better next time around.

]]> By: toxicsoftware.com » FlexTime 1.0 finished http://toxicsoftware.com/toxic_progress_indicator/comment-page-1/#comment-881 toxicsoftware.com » FlexTime 1.0 finished Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:01:55 +0000 http://toxicsoftware.com/blog/toxic_progress_indicator/#comment-881 <p>[...] Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater infamy has released FlexTime, a Mac OS X timer application. Of interest to me is that FlexTime might well be the first released Mac OS X application to make used of my Toxic Progress Indicator Cocoa Widget, as seen in the following screenshot: [...]</p> [...] Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater infamy has released FlexTime, a Mac OS X timer application. Of interest to me is that FlexTime might well be the first released Mac OS X application to make used of my Toxic Progress Indicator Cocoa Widget, as seen in the following screenshot: [...]

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