Progress indicator in Windows task bar button?

[Marian 'VooDooMan' Meravy]

Greetings,

I'd like to have progress indicator in my application in task bar button
of win 8.1 like MSVC 2012 installation have (green background filling
the task bar button in progress). Is it possible to implement it via
wxWidgets?

best,
vdm
.

[Vadim Zeitlin]

On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 17:22:34 +0100 Marian 'VooDooMan' Meravy wrote:

MVM> I'd like to have progress indicator in my application in task bar button
MVM> of win 8.1 like MSVC 2012 installation have (green background filling
MVM> the task bar button in progress). Is it possible to implement it via
MVM> wxWidgets?

No, this is not supported. But it's one of the tasks proposed for GSoC
2014, so perhaps it's going to be implemented soon.

Regards,
VZ

[David Connet]

> From: Marian 'VooDooMan' Meravy <vdm...@gmail.com>
>To: wx-...@googlegroups.com
>Sent: Friday, February 28, 2014 8:22 AM
>Subject: [wx-dev] Progress indicator in Windows task bar button?

It's not too difficult. Check out what I did in http://sourceforge.net/p/agilitybook/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/AgilityBook/src/Win/TaskbarProgress.cpp (which is used in DlgProgress)

Dave

[Marian 'VooDooMan' Meravy]

Thank you very much, I will give it a try!

PS: shouldn't this included in wxWidgets when platform is Windows and >=
Vista?

best,
vdm
.

[David Connet]

Being this is a very Windows-centric thing (can other platforms even do it?), I would really question whether it should be in a cross platform toolkit...

Dave

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>T hank you very much, I will give it a try!

[Thomas Goyne]

OS X 10.8+ has similar functionality (although the API was only made public in the 10.9 SDK).

[Vadim Zeitlin]

On Sun, 2 Mar 2014 15:01:27 -0800 (PST) Thomas Goyne wrote:

TG> OS X 10.8+ has similar functionality (although the API was only made
TG> public in the 10.9 SDK).

Interesting, would you have more details about it by chance, e.g. links to
the Apple documentation?

TIA,
VZ

[Thomas Goyne]

https://developer.apple.com/LIBRARY/mac/releasenotes/Foundation/RN-Foundation/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000742-TRANSLATED_CHAPTER_965-10_9Progress is the only official documentation that I'm aware of (the NSProgress docs don't mention any of the OS X-only functionality, although the header has some comments). The short summary is that you create a NSProgress object, set a key in the userInfo dictionary that Finder watches for, then call publish on the NSProgress object, and then any progress reported to the NSProgress object updates the dock progress indicator.

Chromium's implementation (http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/browser/download/download_status_updater_mac.mm) is a decent example, although most of the file is hacks to support 10.8.

[Vadim Zeitlin]

On Sun, 2 Mar 2014 16:16:18 -0800 (PST) Thomas Goyne wrote:

TG> https://developer.apple.com/LIBRARY/mac/releasenotes/Foundation/RN-Foundation/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000742-TRANSLATED_CHAPTER_965-10_9Progress
TG> is the only official documentation that I'm aware of (the NSProgress docs
TG> don't mention any of the OS X-only functionality, although the header has
TG> some comments). The short summary is that you create a NSProgress object,
TG> set a key in the userInfo dictionary that Finder watches for, then call
TG> publish on the NSProgress object, and then any progress reported to the
TG> NSProgress object updates the dock progress indicator.

Thanks, this looks nice and simple (of course, I didn't try to actually
use it yet, so I could be missing something). Our implementation should
definitely be compatible with this API, i.e. allow implementing it using
NSProgress even if this is not done immediately.

I don't have 10.9 anywhere, so I wonder if anybody has a screenshot
showing how does it actually look? Especially how can the progress be
cancelled?

Regards,
VZ

[Manolo]

El 02/03/2014 5:50, David Connet escribió:
> Being this is a very Windows-centric thing (can other platforms even do it?)

Ubuntu 12 does it.

Regards,
Manolo

[Vadim Zeitlin]

On Mon, 03 Mar 2014 16:01:17 +0100 Manolo wrote:

M> El 02/03/2014 5:50, David Connet escribió:
M> > Being this is a very Windows-centric thing (can other platforms even do it?)
M>
M> Ubuntu 12 does it.

Any idea how?
VZ

[Manolo]

Well. Unity Launcher API is really who offers the feature.

OTOH, having, say 20, different icons (with different levels of filling)
and updating the taskbar icon accordingly may be a way of achieving it.

Regards,
Manolo