Hi Ron, Thanks for that... I should have thought to check out how Apple did it themselves. I was thinking a status message would be ok, but wasn't sure about the progress bar, but then it could all be handled in a text label anyway... "Downloading update... 10% complete".
Gant On 17/01/2010, at 6:31 PM, Ron Fleckner wrote: > > On 17/01/2010, at 4:06 PM, Grant Christensen wrote: > >> Hi, apologies for having a wrong topic, replied instead of created a new >> message. >> >> On 16/01/2010, at 11:25 PM, Grant Christensen wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Somewhat new to cocoa (Mac even) development, and I have a UI layout >>> question that I am hoping to get some opinions on. >>> >>> I have a single window application that contains both a toolbar and a >>> bottom bar. The application periodically goes off and reads some data from >>> a remote server. This is a process that may take up to five seconds, and I >>> don't want to make the user pause while it is occuring, so don't want to >>> pop up a sheet with a status or similar. >>> >>> My first thought was to put a label in the bottom bar saying something >>> like: retrieving from server xxx, and also have a progress indicator. >>> However the apple UI guidelines state not to use any controls in the bottom >>> bar. >>> >>> Can you think of any other Mac standard ways to show progress in a non >>> obtrusive mannor? Just the status label alone may not be sufficient as >>> there would be no way to see if the process has stalled. >>> >>> Thanks for any suggestions >>> >>> Grant Christensen > > Hi Grant, > > I don't think there'd be any problem putting a message and a progress bar in > the bottom bar. They aren't controls, they're just items which tell the user > the state of your app's progress. In fact, both Xcode and Safari do exactly > this. In Safari the bottom bar is called a status bar; fairly self > explanatory. > > Ron --- Grant Christensen _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
