Hi all!
Did this bouncing effect disappear after my recent changes to Morphic layout?
Best, Marcel Am 20.06.2019 23:14:09 schrieb tim Rowledge tim@rowledge.org:
On 2019-06-20, at 10:40 AM, Chris Muller wrote:
When loading a big package (Seaside in this case) it's very obvious that something is a bit inconsistent wrt the progress bar. Most of the time it sits at the centre of the screen but every now and then it leaps (is it a bird? is it a plane? No, it's superbouncyprogressbarman!) to the cursor position - and then back. All a bit travel-sickness inducing really. Clearly there's no very good reason for a UI element to do this dance of flickeriness.
I think a change I made years ago is responsible for that mess. We should definitely fix it some way some how...
Wild guess - make it ignore new positions coming via the route that tries to open a progressbar when one is already open. It ought to be possible to manually drag it around though.
[snip] I suppose one option would be to make popup dialogues add to the progressbar if it is open - in the same way that we get a stack of progress bars, add the inner morphs of a dialogue? I really don't know a solid answer for this, but it certainly isn't a good thing to have a 'do you want to do this important thing or not?' dialogue hidden behind a progress bar that is waiting for the user to answer!
That's an interesting idea. It's unconventional but I like unconventional...
Another idea would be to put the progress bar into TheWorldMainDockingBar. In a distinctive green, it should be easily noticeable to first-time users. It could be either centered within the bar, or overlay it for the duration of progress-monitoring
The problem with sticking progress bar there is that we have the stacking of bars as sub-loads start. I don't think that would fit too cleanly into the dock. At least, not the way we do it now; perhaps one could collapse the prior bar into a single char sized icon and add the new bar, then obviously, reverse that as bars finish and return up the stack.
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