Wait/busy cursor and long delays
Wait/busy cursor and long delays
- Subject: Wait/busy cursor and long delays
- From: Phillip Morelock <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 13:14:48 -0700
Just an opinion, but...
HCI research AFAIK would indicate that 10 seconds is about the maximum
you can expect the human attention span to wait for no feedback without
making them think something is seriously wrong or without their getting
distracted.
cheers
phillip
At Thursday, 25 April 2002, you wrote:
>
On Thursday, April 25, 2002, at 07:25 , Scott Tooker wrote:
>
>
> Not responding to events is bad since (while the wait cursor is
spinning)
>
> you'll look just like a hung application (and impatient users might
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> force quit the app believing it has hung) :(
>
>
Well, depens on the actual task. I'd say some 10, perhaps (arguably)
even
>
20 seconds might be all right, and not worth to an extra panel with
>
indicator. If the delay can be longer, well, then another thread
is the
>
best solution, for even if the app can't do anything more reasonable,
it
>
is still good to be able to check About or Help or Prefs or whatever
>
whilst the computation is done ;)))
>
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>
Ondra Cada
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