Hi Christoph,

I think that the amount of progress bars is also an issue. The bouncing thing was actual bouncing between cursor position and world center.

Best,
Marcel
Am 15.09.2019 19:20:53 schrieb Thiede, Christoph <christoph.thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de>:
Hi,

I just experienced another issue with ProgressBars:


Looks more than a missing "Display reset" than an actual layout problem.

If I can reproduce it, I will reply again.

Best,
Christoph
Von: Squeak-dev <squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org> im Auftrag von Taeumel, Marcel
Gesendet: Montag, 2. September 2019 11:52:11
An: gettimothy via Squeak-dev; Chris Muller
Betreff: Re: [squeak-dev] ProgressBar bounces from screen centre to cursor pos, dialogues get hidden at the centre
 
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 at 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.


tim
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