[ENH] NewProgressBar

Stéphane Rollandin lecteur at zogotounga.net
Thu Apr 8 07:37:11 UTC 2004


>>it's very nice, but when moving the ProgressMorph around it leaves a lot
>>of drawing garbage
> 
> 
> I admit the example is a bit misleading. This was only meant to serve as a 
> showcase for stacked progress morphs and not as an use case. The nested 
> examples in Yoshiki's mail do show much better how to use this. A progress 
> display should only give the user some hint about the activity of a busy 
> system, while the user has been locked out and has to wait for the completion 
> of the operation. So I think it is ok that the progress stack can not be 
> moved during eg. an update session like the rest of the visible objects.
> 

oh, it's a pity... in my application I intend to use progress bars to 
give some information about background tasks. is it so difficult to 
clean up the display ? (I did try a little bit to tweak the code 
yesterday but did not find where to start)


cheers,

Stef




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