On 10 Jun 2006, at 23:40, Eric M.Williams wrote:
Based on my experience supporting graphic designers, people will
wait for almost anything given two conditions:
A) They can see that progress is being made, and
B) They are confident that the operation will be successful.
So,
A) Give feedback that progress is being made, and
B) Pre-flight your lengthy process to make sure it has enough
information/resources to succeed, and bail out early if it cannot
finish its task.
Absolutely!
In the world of publishing deadlines, the time it took for a
Photoshop process often determined whether you had time to bother or
not. And if it subsequently fell over, it generally meant you would
not use that feature/plugin again.
With enough time at hand, you were used to waiting minutes, sometimes
even half an hour for a process - it was a good way of getting a
coffee break and catching up with office gossip! However that was
mostly for people not lucky enough to have a IIfx with 4 Mb of RAM.
These days with 1Gb RAM and G4 or better, you rarely expect to wait
more than a few seconds. Those days are gone...
Tony Spencer
St Rémy de Provence (13) France
http://tonyspencer.blogspot.com/
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