How to show progress indicator for background job
How to show progress indicator for background job
- Subject: How to show progress indicator for background job
- From: Grant Christensen <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:06:11 +1000
Hi, apologies for having a wrong topic, replied instead of created a new message.
On 16/01/2010, at 11:25 PM, Grant Christensen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Somewhat new to cocoa (Mac even) development, and I have a UI layout question that I am hoping to get some opinions on.
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> I have a single window application that contains both a toolbar and a bottom bar. The application periodically goes off and reads some data from a remote server. This is a process that may take up to five seconds, and I don't want to make the user pause while it is occuring, so don't want to pop up a sheet with a status or similar.
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> My first thought was to put a label in the bottom bar saying something like: retrieving from server xxx, and also have a progress indicator. However the apple UI guidelines state not to use any controls in the bottom bar.
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> Can you think of any other Mac standard ways to show progress in a non obtrusive mannor? Just the status label alone may not be sufficient as there would be no way to see if the process has stalled.
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> Thanks for any suggestions
>
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