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Progress bar jitters


  • Subject: Progress bar jitters
  • From: Trygve Inda <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:39:05 +0000
  • Thread-topic: Progress bar jitters

In the Apple sample code, QTKitProgressTester, why does the progress bar
jitter... That is it goes up some, then jumps back?

The code in question is in a QTKit callback:

- (BOOL)movie:(QTMovie *)movie shouldContinueOperation:(NSString *)op
withPhase:(QTMovieOperationPhase)phase atPercent:(NSNumber *)percent
withAttributes:(NSDictionary *)attributes

{
    BOOL        shouldContinue = YES;
    NSEvent*    event;
    double        percentDoneDouble = (double)[percent doubleValue] * 100.0;
    double        currentPercent;

    switch (phase)
    {
        case QTMovieOperationBeginPhase:
            // set up the progress panel
            [progressMsg setStringValue:op];
            [progressBar setDoubleValue:0];
            break;

        case QTMovieOperationUpdatePercentPhase:
            // update the percent done
            currentPercent = [progressBar doubleValue];
            if (percentDoneDouble > currentPercent + 0.5)
            {
                [progressBar setDoubleValue:percentDoneDouble];
                [progressBar display];
            }
            break;
        case QTMovieOperationEndPhase:
            [NSApp endSheet:progressSheet returnCode:NSOKButton];
            [progressSheet close];
            break;
    }

// cancel (if requested)
event = [progressSheet nextEventMatchingMask:NSLeftMouseUpMask
untilDate:[NSDate distantPast] inMode:NSDefaultRunLoopMode dequeue:YES];

if (event && NSPointInRect([event locationInWindow], [progressCancel
frame]))
{
    [progressCancel performClick:self];
    shouldContinue = NO;
}

    return (shouldContinue);
}


I added the currentPercent + 0.5 part to only update if the change is
significant and it helped a bit, but is still jumpy. I am guessing it has to
do with the value setting being a double? Is it better to make it an int and
normalize it to 0-1000 for example?

Thanks,

Trygve


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