Hey David: If you leave it as is, and you encountered an error message, wouldn't the status bar stop midway and then a window will pop up saying that the image failed to create?
I think that's enough indiciation to the user that there is something wrong with the image creation? Cheers, Bernard > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > David N. Lombard > Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 12:06 > To: oscar-devel > Subject: [Oscar-devel] RFC > > 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' > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on > ITManagersJournal > Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of > them. Give us > Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to > find out more > http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
