Re: How to show progress indicator for background job
Re: How to show progress indicator for background job
- Subject: Re: How to show progress indicator for background job
- From: Quincey Morris <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:29:50 -0800
On Jan 17, 2010, at 00:58, Grant Christensen wrote:
> Thanks for that... I should have thought to check out how Apple did it themselves. I was thinking a status message would be ok, but wasn't sure about the progress bar, but then it could all be handled in a text label anyway... "Downloading update... 10% complete".
While I don't see anything wrong with a small progress bar next to the status message, a circular progress indicator may be more appealing.
If it's not extremely important to represent the proportion of the download completed, then an *indeterminate* circular progress indicator's animation is enough to draw attention to the activity represented by the status message, without being a glaring eyesore. (I guess I really mean: without being bright blue.)
If it is important, a determinate circular progress indicator, like the one Xcode uses to show build progress, may be more pleasant than a bar.
Incidentally, iPhoto, iCal and iTunes all have controls in their bottom bar. So do Mail, Pages and Numbers, in a way.
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