Re: needing help w/ asynchronous message problem, using YAMessageQueue
Re: needing help w/ asynchronous message problem, using YAMessageQueue
- Subject: Re: needing help w/ asynchronous message problem, using YAMessageQueue
- From: Grant Christensen <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:25:59 +1000
Hi all,
Somewhat new to cocoa (Mac even) development, and I have a UI layout question that I am hoping to get some opinions on.
I have a single window application that contains both a toolbar and a bottom bar. The application periodically goes off and reads some data from a remote server. This is a process that may take up to five seconds, and I don't want to make the user pause while it is occuring, so don't want to pop up a sheet with a status or similar.
My first thought was to put a label in the bottom bar saying something like: retrieving from server xxx, and also have a progress indicator. However the apple UI guidelines state not to use any controls in the bottom bar.
Can you think of any other Mac standard ways to show progress in a non obtrusive mannor? Just the status label alone may not be sufficient as there would be no way to see if the process has stalled.
Thanks for any suggestions
Grant Christensen_______________________________________________
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