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Now, you need to install the meter. You click right > Add Custom Pane, and then select MeterGraphPane. A click, drag, and release produces a rectangle in which a meter is to appear when the application is launched.

Note, however, that the rectangle, being a graph pane, has scroll bars. You eliminate them by selecting noScrollBars in the Style: list box.

Next, you supply a name for the meter by typing the meter in the Name: field. You need the name later when you define the decrementMeter: and incrementMeter: methods.

Finally, you move to the When: list box and the Perform: text field to specify two callback methods. For the display event, you specify callDrawMeter. For the getContents event, you specify initializeMeter.