In responding to Bernard's request to leave the status bar up after the "OK' button 
has been pressed, I noticed the various error handling.

I'd like to indicate an error by drawing the rest of the bar in red, so a failed 
condition would be shown by a bar that was green to the point of failure, and then red 
after.  If you noticed, the bar is now marked into 5% blocks, so you could look at the 
bar and get some estimate of the percent completed before failure.

+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
|GG|GG|GG|GG|GG|GG|GG|GR|RR|RR|RR|RR|RR|RR|RR|RR|RR|RR|RR|RR|
+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+

So, in the above ugly ascii graphic, where "G" is green and "R" is red, a failure at 
about 38% is indicated.  Clearly, there's no definition of what 38% actually means, 
nor am I suggesting any such documentation.

Do you think that would be evident to someone looking at the bar?  That is, could I 
reasonably expect people to interpret an all-green bar as a successful completion and 
a part-green, part-red bar as failed? Furthermore, be able to see approximately where 
the build failed?  Don't forget, they would have also sen an appropriate message 
explaining the failure.

Alternatively, is this getting too goofy, and I should just quit mucking about...

--
David N. Lombard
Rossmoor, Orange County, CA
N 33 deg, 48', W 118 deg, 5'




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