Re: how to disable an indeterminate progress bar?
Re: how to disable an indeterminate progress bar?
- Subject: Re: how to disable an indeterminate progress bar?
- From: "Nick Emery" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 09:09:20 +0100
- Organization: Peramon technology Ltd
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To have a progress indicator visible, even if "disabled", when there is
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nothing to indicate the progress for, I believe, can lead to user confusion
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("What's this indicator for?"). However, it /may/ be reasonable to have the empty
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well of the indicator (the "zero" progress state) always visible, rather than
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simply a blank location. (Again, however, this may beg for explanatory text near
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the indicator, which may not be necessary when the indicator only shows up when
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the user initiates something that runs in the background---again, like the pop-up
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progress indicators of classic Mac OS.)
ok, i currently use the zero state determinate version of the progress bar when no background activity is underway. unfortunately, when i restart the indeterminate animation (using startAnimation), the barber pole behaves strangely: it sometime reverses, starts going forward again, reverses etc.
maybe this is just a bug.
anyway, thanks for your help --nikki