On 17/01/2010, at 4:06 PM, Grant Christensen wrote:
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thanks for any suggestions
Grant Christensen
Hi Grant,
I don't think there'd be any problem putting a message and a progress
bar in the bottom bar. They aren't controls, they're just items which
tell the user the state of your app's progress. In fact, both Xcode
and Safari do exactly this. In Safari the bottom bar is called a
status bar; fairly self explanatory.
Ron
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