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Re: Drawing text on top of a progress bar
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Re: Drawing text on top of a progress bar


  • Subject: Re: Drawing text on top of a progress bar
  • From: Derrick Bass <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 03:34:15 -0500

On Jun 14, 2006, at 12:33 AM, John Stiles wrote:

Out of curiosity, why would one want text /inside/ a progress bar?
This sounds very Windows 3.1 to me. Mac apps don't do this. I hope you're not trying to write a "percentage complete" value ;)



Not exactly. The app is performing a task that consists of multiple steps. The trouble is, each of those steps proceeds at a different rate that is fairly data dependent. So, although there is an overall progress bar, it's not really very useful because there's no way to linearize it consistently. I've never seen an app that handled this very well, and now I know why! It's hard!


So we (or rather my employer; being lazy, I was content to just have the nonlinear progress bar ;-)) wanted a way for the user to see what steps had been performed and what steps still needed to be performed and how far through the current step we'd gotten. What we came up with was a sort of "segmented progress bar". So if there were 5 steps, we'd have 5 little progress bars lined up next to one other, with a small gap between them. If we were halfway through the third step, then the first two progress bars would be filled, the third half-filled, and the last two empty. We wanted to label each little progress bar with a short piece of text describing the step, e.g. "copy", "encrypt", etc. For now we've placed the labels below the progress bars, but it looks cooler with the text inside the progress bar.

Anyway, we are certainly open to better interface ideas for providing that sort of information!

Derrick

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