[mythtv-theming] Question about progressbar widget

[Paul Harrison]

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> From: Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com>
>To: Discussion about MythTV theming <mythtv-theming at mythtv.org> 
>Sent: Wednesday, 3 July 2013, 3:00
>Subject: [mythtv-theming] Question about progressbar widget
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>Hi there.
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>Trying to understand how to size a progress bar.
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>it seems to completely ignore the dimension I give, only using the dimension from the one it's inheriting from.
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>Example:
>I have a progress bar like so:
>        <progressbar name="progress"from="baseprogressbar">
>            <area>170,140,100%-20,20</area>
>            <layout>horizontal</layout>
>            <style>reveal</style>
>        </progressbar>
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>It really makes no difference to which width I provide. Here I have 100%-20, but I could have 10 for all I care and the appearance is identical.
>Problem is that if I make my window smaller, then the progress bar sticks out of it. I can't make it fit within the parent window; I have to define the parent window size to make the scroll bar fit.
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>Any experience on this topic that could help me?
>Thanks
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I remember wrestling with this when I wanted a smaller progress bar on the watch recordings screen. This is what I used in the end :-

http://code.mythtv.org/cgit/mythtv/tree/mythtv/themes/MythCenter-wide/recordings-ui.xml#n430

Hope it helps.

Paul H