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Woo!

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Okay.

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Okay.

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We've looked at the progress bar.

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We've looked at the meter bar.

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Before we finish up, let's just summarize what we've learned.

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It's always good to do a summary, isn't it?

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Otherwise you can get quite lost and it can feel quite daunting.

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Firstly, progress bars convey how much work in a task has been completed.

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Always think of this as something as always updating.

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For example a questionnaire on a form, the current duration in a video, the time it's taking for a file

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to download or upload,

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etc

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etc.

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This is what progress bars were designed to do, or to convey.

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The meter bar, on the other hand, is used to display a fixed measurement on a known scale like low,

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medium, high.

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It's more of a gauge and therefore do not use the meter element to indicate the progress completion of

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a task.

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It's just not what it's designed to do.

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As I mentioned, the meter will be good for showing things like current disk usage, fuel tank status,

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heat temperatures,

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etc

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etc.

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So I guess what I want to say through all of this is this progress bars represents units of work that

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are ongoing, whereas meter bars represent a snapshot reading at any given moment, and that is the primary

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distinction between them.

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So there we go.

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I know I'm rushing through this.

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I just wanted to mention progress bars and meter bars because you will see them on forms now and again.

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But you know, they're not as important as some of the other form widgets we've looked at.

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But nevertheless, still good to know about.

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I've had so much fun in this section.

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Aww, I just ... you know, I'm always sad that, you know, I know we're not at the end of the course,

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but we are approaching there.

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But anyway, you'll stick with me I'm sure, in other courses.

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I'll see you around.

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But let's, um

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let's 

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don't get too sad yet.

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We've still got a lot to cover.

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See you in the next lecture.