Progress Bar Widget

Hi.
I'm looking for a simple progress bar (a.k.a ticker) widget and wondering if anyone knows of one that might exist.

Everything I see is for a specific purpose - none that match my need.

I am looking for something more universal, where I can set the starting value, goal value and then manually change the current value and the meter displays the 'progress' with a solid bar on a scale.

A common assimilation would be to the "thermometer" a charity may use to illustration how much money they've raised relative to what the ultimate goal is.

The Nike widget is the closest visually to what I am looking for - but of course it has a very specific application. I need something that will let me set my own unit of measure - be it weight or currency or whatever.

There are tickers that you can build on the internet for using on a website. Does anyone know if something like this exists for the Dashboard?

Thx.

Mac Pro 2.8 (Early 2008), Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Jun 3, 2008 12:02 AM

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Jun 3, 2008 12:18 AM in response to orangekay

I'm not sure I understand what you mean.

Take a countdown widget by example.
It assumes starting date is TODAY.
I can assign an ending date.
It calculates how many days are left and displays that.

For a progress bar, I would imagine this would be even more simple.
For example, I want to track progress of a fund raising.

There is a field where I specify starting amount = 0
A field where I specify what the goal amount is = 100
A field to specify unit value being measured (weight, currency or days - for example)
And a field where I enter the "current amount" - for example 25.

The widget simply displays a solid bar within the scale proportionate to the amount I've entered as the current value.

This requires code - I understand that. But I don't see why this can't be done - and am quite surprise that I haven't been able to find an existing widget that already does this. I'm not really wanting to learn the API for creating my own widget if I can help it.

Jun 3, 2008 12:48 AM in response to Booker T.

The problem is that what you're describing is about as useful as a clock that requires the user to set the correct time before reading it, so the odds of someone having created such a generic progress indicator that requires manual input to advance and releasing it as a finished product are close to nil. Just use a spreadsheet or something if you need to draw charts.

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