pepetoo wrote:
> Mark, I understand what you're saying, but when my application
> starts up it takes maybe 5 to 10 seconds to load data the user
> has previously saved or default data. I like to have a "simple"
> indication that something is happening. I suppose I could use
> the wristwatch, but nothing as complicated as a progress bar.
You could replace the images in the cursors stack with more colorful
ones, but as Mark pointed out the problem is that the color beachball is
used by the OS to indicate an unresponsive app, so using that will
prompt some users to force-quit the app thinking it's having a problem.
I would go for the progress bar. It takes only a few minutes to set up,
and lets users know exactly where they are in that long wait.
Here's a rough sketch of how you might use a progress bar from a routine
which has to process a lengthy data file line by line - this assumes
there's a scrollbar control named "progress" on the current stack:
on LoadDocument pFile
put url ("file:"& pFile) into tData
SetupProgress the number of lines of tData
put 0 into i
repeat for each line tLine in tData
add 1 to i
ShowProgress i
--
DoMyRecordLoadingStuffHere
end repeat
EndProgress
end LoadDocument
on SetupProgress pMax
set the startValue of sb "progress" to 0
set the endValue of sb "progress" to pMax
set the thumbpos of sb "progress" to 0
show db "progress"
end SetupProgress
on ShowProgress pVal
-- only update every 100th time through loop,
-- so that the OS overhead of rendering the
-- progress bar doesn't slow things down;
-- depending on the size of the data you may
-- want to use another number instead of 100:
if pVal mod 100 - 0 then
set the thumbpos of sb "progress" to pVal
wait 0 with messages -- allow redraw
end if
end ShowProgress
on EndProgress
set the thumbpos of sb "progress" to the endValue of sb "progress"
hide sb "progress"
end EndProgress
--
Richard Gaskin
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