AMDProgressBar

While playing a popular game recently, I was struck by just how attractive the progress bars were. I vaguely recalled wanting a Java progress bar in the past, and not being able to find one. So, I spent a couple of hours whipping out a little class that mimics the look and feel of those dreamy bars.

There are two versions of the progress bar, one which is a subclass of an AWT component, and one which can be embedded in the drawing area of other components. AMDProgressBar acts as a standard AWT component, whereas AMDProgressBarEmbed must be embedded in the drawing area of another component to work. That way, a single Canvas can be used to contain a progress bar alongside whatever else the developer wants to draw.

Features:

• Customizable!
• Double-buffered!
• Looks good!
• Free!

Version 0.90 was released on December 09, 1996.

API

• AMDProgressBar
• AMDProgressBarEmbed

Source

• AMDProgressBar
• AMDProgressBarEmbed
• ProgressTest (test applet)

Known Bugs

• Different versions of Java report font heights differently. As such, text looks screwy sometimes under certain platforms. I don't have a workaround for this one.

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