On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 03:28:58PM -0800, Ian Clarke wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 12:14:58AM +0100, David 'Bombe' Roden wrote:
> > Take a look at http://todesbaum.dyndns.org/freenet/new-splitfile-request/ 
> > again, click "small view" at the bottom of the middle page. There are 2 
> > bars there now, the first displaying the overall completion status, the 
> > second one showing what each block is doing.
> 
> Very cool!  Only thing is that it might be just as well to make the 
> colors contiguous as in Simon's screen-shot, I am not sure that there is 
The colors were not contiguous in simon's screenshot.
> any advantage to giving the novice user the ability to find out exactly 
> which block is doing what, rather, I think it will be sufficient to give 
> an indication of how many blocks have each different type of status.
> 
> Another advantage of making the colours contiguous is that it will speed 
> up rendering of the tables dramatically.
> 
> So, the first length of the bar could indicate downloaded/failed blocks 
> (perhaps blue downloaded, red DNF, orange RNF), these can be mixed up if 
> so-desired, or separated.  Separated will make the table render much 
> faster.
No, we need to have a failed-but-going-to-retry color, as well as a
failed-but-not-going-to-retry color.
> 
> The second length of the bar could indicate the number of blocks where a
> request is in progress (perhaps purple to indicate that it could either
> become red or green).
> 
> The third stretch of the bar - maybe green, indicates the number of 
> blocks which must be downloaded to reassemble the file.
Eh? Sorry, I don't understand this bit at all. IRC?
> 
> The last stretch indicates the number of blocks which haven't been 
> attempted - effectively the reserve pool.  This could be white.
> 
> Ian.
> 
> > For each block I'm drawing 2 pixels of bar at the moment. 1 pixel is 
> > clearly 
> > not enough, 3 pixels might be too much.
> 
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