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Bars can be:
  • Vertical or horizontal.
  • Left to right, right to left, top to bottom, or bottom to top.
  • A solid, gradient, or image.

    Can also:
  • Show current value as text, with customizable suffix, on bar.
  • Show additional text on bar.
  • Use an image as the bar's background.

    Parameter explanation:
  • Align Left/Right/Top/Bottom (req)
  • Min Minimum value (req)
  • Max Maximum value (req)
  • Background Background color (req)
  • Border Border color (req)
  • Color Bar color (req)
  • Style Solid/Image/GradientSpan/GradientNoSpan/GradientColorize (req)
  • ShowValue No/Left/TopLeft/Top/TopRight/Right/BottomRight/Bottom/BottomLeft/Center/FloatOnBar/FloatInBar (req)
  • ShowAdditionalText No/Left/TopLeft/Top/TopRight/Right/BottomRight/Bottom/BottomLeft/Center (req)
  • ImageFile Path to image to use as bar, currently bitmaps only (opt)
  • EndColor Use with Gradient (opt)
  • Font Use with ShowValue and/or ShowAdditionalText (opt)
  • FontColor Use with ShowValue and/or ShowAdditionalText (opt)
  • ValueSuffix Appends to the end of ShowValue (opt)
  • AdditionalText Additional text to display on the bar (opt)
  • BarBGImage Draw an image as the bar's background, currently bitmaps only

    Change log
    v 0.2.1.2
    - changed parameters Background and Border to BackgroundColor and BorderColor, respectively
    - changed over to vtFontEx for fonts (made one parameter defunct, removed)
    - changed parameters ValueFont and ValueFontColor to Font and FontColor, respectively
    - added color converter, can now use simple names (ex: clGreen or Green), ABGR, and RGB color formats
    v 0.2.1.1
    - rebuilt for eddie test
    v 0.2.1.0
    - added BarBGImage parameter
    - added icon to dll
    v 0.2.0.3
    - rebuild to try to fix a Cannot Create Class installation error
    v 0.2.0.2
    - fixed Image style
    v 0.2.0.1
    - took over the name 'Bar' from the original plugin, per Aaangel
    v 0.2.0.0
    - name change from Bar2
    - changed min>=max error to max:=min+50
    - added drawing of additional text
    v 0.1.4.0
    - added ValueSuffix parameter
    v 0.1.3.8
    - improved image file error checking
    v 0.1.3.7
    - fixed an error in Update concerning conversion of strings
    v 0.1.3.6
    - fixed a few parameter errors
    - GradientType now combined with Style
    v 0.1.3.5
    - changed file checking
    v 0.1.3.4
    - added in support for editor font dropdown
    v 0.1.3.2
    - minor fix for those still using the old editor
    v 0.1.3.1
    - added support for new editor interface
    v 0.1.2.0
    - added ShowValue parameter to allow display of the value passed to the bar
    v 0.1.1.0
    - added Colorize gradient option
    - changed GradienSpan to GradientType
    v 0.1.0.1
    - added some error checking.
    - optimized much of the ReDraw code and a couple other of the functions.
    - fixed: placing on a form in the wysiwyg editor would cause “Cound not convert variant type of (Null) into type (String)” error.
    v 0.1.0.0
    - released