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. > > -- > Ian Clarke ian@[freenetproject.org|locut.us|cematics.com] > Latest Project http://cematics.com/kanzi > Personal Homepage http://locut.us/
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