Re: Determinate NSProgressIndicator without animation?
Re: Determinate NSProgressIndicator without animation?
- Subject: Re: Determinate NSProgressIndicator without animation?
- From: Lloyd Sargent <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 18:27:02 -0500
On Friday, September 14, 2001, at 06:10 PM, Ondra Cada wrote:
Jonathan,
Jonathan Hendry (JH) wrote at Fri, 14 Sep 2001 18:03:48 -0500:
JH> I used a non-animated progress indicator in a PDF reader
JH> project. The widget shows where you are in the document.
JH> (I don't think a scrollbar is ideal for this.)
Well, I'm not an expert of GUI, but somewhat I feel that scrollbar was
actually designed _exactly_ for that.
Correct me please if I am wrong, but I feel this is a question of
consistency: the user sees progress indicator, well! He presumes the
application is performing some lenghty computation, and the thing
informs him
how far it is. The user sees scrollbar? Right! He presumes there are
some
data of which just part is shown, and the thing informs him which part,
and
how big it is.
Right or wrong, I have to agree with Ondra. The progress indicator
really is not a good indicator of "where you are in the document". And,
as he so eloquently stated, the scrollbar is, in fact, the RIGHT thing
to use. Otherwise it seems to me you are using a widget in a
non-standard way (which is what gets Windoze users into trouble a lot
<grin>).
Cheers,
Lloyd
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