Re: Progress Indicators Spin vs Bar
Re: Progress Indicators Spin vs Bar
- Subject: Re: Progress Indicators Spin vs Bar
- From: James Merkel <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:47:07 -0700
On Jun 20, 2011, at 2:01 AM, Mike Abdullah wrote:
On 20 Jun 2011, at 09:31, James Merkel wrote:
Yeah, I just kind of avoided the basic problem. The app isn't
receiving at least some events -- for example the menus can't be
pulled down. On the other hand, the spinning beach ball doesn't
appear, and I can drag the progress window around.
Window dragging is handled by the window server so that an
unresponsive app can't affect it.
Upon further investigation I see that the beach ball does finally
appear.
I guess the question is, what is the definition of unresponsive? An
app will always have short unresponsive periods when it is doing
something.
Another question -- when should a progress indicator be put up? The
length of time in my processing loop can very greatly. I could be
processing 3 files or 300 files. It seems a waste to flash a progress
indicator for very short processing cases. On the other hand I can't
just set a threshold for putting up a progress indicator, since the
processing period can very from one machine to another. Also the
processing period varies for different file types and even varies on
the same machine from run to run. No obvious answers to some of these
questions.
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