Extra tags - Percentage

[Marco]

Could this type of extra tag be added? A value that shows how much of something has been done (reading a paper, developing a project, and so on), perhaps styled as a bar like the one showing used space/free space remaining on This PC view? A good combo with CC icons, since such "native" tag could then be styled with different icons (like battery charge on smartphones...).

[SkyFrontier]

Hello, Marco!
Unless you're talking about a rating system like "Rating Stars", which offers the extra convenience of being displayed in the context menu (for the mousey people), why the current scripting support doesn't suffice here?

Due to some graphical limitations* (see far below for a proper note), this is coded to deal with 1/20 steps (0.5/10).

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Please set the variable '$nmbrd' as '1' to get numbered prefixes, anything else to get just the progress bar.

Some considerations:
-wouldn't be about time to expand the number of extra columns?
-get() seems to not support extra columns: while extratag() and columnlayout() allow script interference, get() would be the manner to allow such info retrieval as extratag() seems to permit such only after a manipulation, right?
-draw.* is just the perfect match here!
-*draw.bar would be just awesome to allow increments of 1 between a 1-100 value, thus a real progression since AFAICT there's no reasonable ASCII equivalent which could be used instead.
-status() could benefit of draw.*, either, so a serious progression bar could be made.

[Marco]

Hi there, sorry for the later reply!
Scripting could suffice, but I'm looking for something easier (as it should be): throwing in a percentage, or a number between 0 and 1, or an equivalent ratio. XY will then style it like the drive bars in This PC view - after all, the underlying code is already there. Maybe I should wait for draw.* to be able to paint actual bars? Still, I think a "native" "completion tag" makes sense (we have a yes/no, a rating, and more)

[admin]

Hey, I swear I did not see this thread yet but I spent the whole morning adding the new "draw.bar" command.

[Filehero]

add "draw.colorscale" and you will have come quite close to Excel's major conditional formatting options.

[admin]

add "draw.colorscale" and you will have come quite close to Excel's major conditional formatting options.

Whatever this is...

[bdeshi]

The color automatically changes based on the value within a range. say red for max value and green for min value. The color will be orange yellow for the median. HSL might be a suitable color format for this. ed> http://www.excel-easy.com/examples/color-scales.html

[admin]

Thanks. I think I'll keep this in my mind for later...

[Filehero]

Whatever this is...

As Sammay already pointed (thanks).

As for me, it was mainly a statement of impression ("almost...").

As for the draw option: sometimes I do find this automatic status light quite handy. But since it's basically just another flavor of the existing ones, it is ..... "procrastinatable".