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From: bobmcc@tiger.tcs.com (Bob McCormick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Completion bar
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Date: 12 Sep 90 15:29:06 GMT
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In article <1990Sep11.155203.18830@watserv1.waterloo.edu>,
anderson@watserv1.waterloo.edu (G.Anderson - Computing Services) writes:
|> I am looking for a way of displaying a bar, and filling it in as a  
|> task is completed to give a visual indication of completion of a
|> task, much like the MAC system does.
|> 
I would use the "scale" widget, with a minimum of 0 and a maximum
of 100 (i.e. percent).  Then I think you can just keep updating the
value of the widget, and the slider will move along the scale to
indicate the percentage of the job that is completed.

Bob