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Re: slick progress bar

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On Friday, February 1, 2013 11:12:01 AM UTC-8, Roedy Green wrote:
> I have noticed a few windows apps displaying progress as a moving
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> green tide on the icon on the task bar.  This lets you monitor
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> progress of a minimised app.
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> It would be nice if some of Java apps did that.
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> Is there anything in the Java API that hooks up to it?
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> is there a jni lib?
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> here is some info on how it works under .net in Windows 7
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> http://blogs.windows.com/windows/archive/b/developers/archive/2009/07/28/windows-7-taskbar-dynamic-overlay-icons-and-progress-bars.aspx
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> -- 
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> Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com
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> The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time.
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> The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development 
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> time. 
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> ~ Tom Cargill  Ninety-ninety Law

Could you possibly set the icon label to have a loading bar looking image and extend the size of it depending on the percentage it is loaded?

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slick progress bar Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-02-01 11:12 -0800
  Re: slick progress bar zfollette@gmail.com - 2013-02-11 17:52 -0800
  Re: slick progress bar bob smith <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2013-02-12 08:02 -0800
    Re: slick progress bar Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-02-12 16:25 -0800
      Re: slick progress bar Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2013-02-14 00:50 +0100
        Re: slick progress bar Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-02-15 19:01 -0800

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