OK I know a lot of people want to know how you make progressive progress bars in Samurize, well here's a quick tutuorial how it's done. Now bare with me, I'm not at home so I don't have the actual program in front of me, so if I mess something up I will edit it when I get home.
First thing is you need to add a Graphic Area. Once you have the area you want, click and drag at how big you want the area. Next thing you do is click on the second tab called Meter List. When you first click on this tab there will be nothing in there, but a blank white screen on the left. So, let's add something
Click on the Add Meter button on the right, and select Add PerfMon from the selection. Another window will appear and will allow you to select whatever it is you want to monitor. For now let's select Processor under Performance Object, % Processor Time under Select counters from list, and Total under Select instances from list. Of course you can pick whatever you like, but for this little turotial we'll pick those.
When you have completed selecting what it is you want to monitor, click the OK button, and it will bring you back to the same screen you were at, before you clicked on Add Meter, except this time there will be a meter in the white screen to the left. If you click on the meter, it will bring up it's options in a window titled Standard Tasks to the right. This will allow you to change the color, length, height, etc. For now leave them how they are.
Under Display Properties there's an option that lets you select if you want the monitor to be a graph, histogram, text, or a progressbar. For this little tutorial you want to select progressbar. Once you do that, you might notice that a few more options become available, but right now we will ignore them.
What you want to do next is click on the meter in the left window again, but this time click on the copy button that you will see at the bottom of that window. Once you have done that click on the paste button 9 more times. You will notice identical meters appearing in the left hand window, until you see a total of 10 listed. Now I just used 10 for this, but you could have made as many as you want, but they will all need to equal 100%, which you will understand in a few minutes.
Now if you look at your sample screen at the top, you will still only see 1 progressbar, but we are about to change that. Click on the second meter in your list. The options in the right hand window will appear again. Scroll down until you see a radio button for Horizontal or Vertical. This will determine if you want your progressbars to show the meter going across or up. Let's pick Horizontal for this exercise. Once you have picked how you want the progressbar to look, you will see 2 fields called Position X and Postion Y right underneath. This will tell the program where you want the progressbar to appear in your graphic area. Change the Position X value to 10 more than the value that's in there now (the default value is 4) and hit ENTER (you must hit enter or your values won't be recognized on your sample screen). Once you do that, you will notice that you now have another meter next to (or pretty close to) the first meter you made. Now do that for the next 8, always adding 10 more to the value in the Position X field than you did the last time. Once you are done you will notice you have a horizontal line of 10 progressbars.
Now here's the part where we make the progressbars different. Click on the first meter in the list in the left hand window, and bring up it's options again. Scroll down and look at the options, there are 2 field that say Min and Max. The Min value is a 0 and the Max value is a 100 by default. What this means is that for that one progressbar, it will show 100% of it. For this tutorial change the Max value to 10, and click enter. Click on the second meter in left hand window, find the same fields, but this time change the Min to an 11, and the Max to 20. What this is doing is changing the values that will display in the actual progressbar. Do this for the rest of your meters. For example the 3rd meter would be Min 21 and Max 30, the fourth would be B]Min[/B] 31 - B]Max[/B] 40, all the way until you get to the 10th one which would be B]Min[/B] 91- B]Max[/B] 100. Always remember to click enter after you change the value of the field.
Once you have completed this save your project. Find the samurize icon in your system tray. Right click on it, and select RELOAD CONFIG. You will now have a progressbar on your desktop that look like the ones in my screenshot..
You can also go into each individual progressbar and change the color under the optons whre is says Meter Color (HEX) so it looks like it progressively changes in color for a nice effect
Here is a template you can use.
I hope this helps a lot of you with your samurize questions. It really is a great program and it's a lot of fun to configure and build once you get the hang of it. If you have any questions, you can email me at [email protected], or you can msg me on MSN at [email protected].
First thing is you need to add a Graphic Area. Once you have the area you want, click and drag at how big you want the area. Next thing you do is click on the second tab called Meter List. When you first click on this tab there will be nothing in there, but a blank white screen on the left. So, let's add something
Click on the Add Meter button on the right, and select Add PerfMon from the selection. Another window will appear and will allow you to select whatever it is you want to monitor. For now let's select Processor under Performance Object, % Processor Time under Select counters from list, and Total under Select instances from list. Of course you can pick whatever you like, but for this little turotial we'll pick those.
When you have completed selecting what it is you want to monitor, click the OK button, and it will bring you back to the same screen you were at, before you clicked on Add Meter, except this time there will be a meter in the white screen to the left. If you click on the meter, it will bring up it's options in a window titled Standard Tasks to the right. This will allow you to change the color, length, height, etc. For now leave them how they are.
Under Display Properties there's an option that lets you select if you want the monitor to be a graph, histogram, text, or a progressbar. For this little tutorial you want to select progressbar. Once you do that, you might notice that a few more options become available, but right now we will ignore them.
What you want to do next is click on the meter in the left window again, but this time click on the copy button that you will see at the bottom of that window. Once you have done that click on the paste button 9 more times. You will notice identical meters appearing in the left hand window, until you see a total of 10 listed. Now I just used 10 for this, but you could have made as many as you want, but they will all need to equal 100%, which you will understand in a few minutes.
Now if you look at your sample screen at the top, you will still only see 1 progressbar, but we are about to change that. Click on the second meter in your list. The options in the right hand window will appear again. Scroll down until you see a radio button for Horizontal or Vertical. This will determine if you want your progressbars to show the meter going across or up. Let's pick Horizontal for this exercise. Once you have picked how you want the progressbar to look, you will see 2 fields called Position X and Postion Y right underneath. This will tell the program where you want the progressbar to appear in your graphic area. Change the Position X value to 10 more than the value that's in there now (the default value is 4) and hit ENTER (you must hit enter or your values won't be recognized on your sample screen). Once you do that, you will notice that you now have another meter next to (or pretty close to) the first meter you made. Now do that for the next 8, always adding 10 more to the value in the Position X field than you did the last time. Once you are done you will notice you have a horizontal line of 10 progressbars.
Now here's the part where we make the progressbars different. Click on the first meter in the list in the left hand window, and bring up it's options again. Scroll down and look at the options, there are 2 field that say Min and Max. The Min value is a 0 and the Max value is a 100 by default. What this means is that for that one progressbar, it will show 100% of it. For this tutorial change the Max value to 10, and click enter. Click on the second meter in left hand window, find the same fields, but this time change the Min to an 11, and the Max to 20. What this is doing is changing the values that will display in the actual progressbar. Do this for the rest of your meters. For example the 3rd meter would be Min 21 and Max 30, the fourth would be B]Min[/B] 31 - B]Max[/B] 40, all the way until you get to the 10th one which would be B]Min[/B] 91- B]Max[/B] 100. Always remember to click enter after you change the value of the field.
Once you have completed this save your project. Find the samurize icon in your system tray. Right click on it, and select RELOAD CONFIG. You will now have a progressbar on your desktop that look like the ones in my screenshot..
You can also go into each individual progressbar and change the color under the optons whre is says Meter Color (HEX) so it looks like it progressively changes in color for a nice effect
Here is a template you can use.
I hope this helps a lot of you with your samurize questions. It really is a great program and it's a lot of fun to configure and build once you get the hang of it. If you have any questions, you can email me at [email protected], or you can msg me on MSN at [email protected].
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