Hi all,
thanks to Yen-Ju and others that worked on Busy.app. I haven't managed
to get Busy.app to work under Solaris yet, so I don't know how exactly
it gives visual feedback. But I followed the discussion about
translucent windows/titles (which I unfortunately also cannot try out
yet since Solaris 10 SPARC does not seem to support composite). But I
had the following the following thaughts about binding the visual
feedback to windows. A common example of a busy application is the
following.
• A user has started a database application client and successfully
logged in. EtoileMenuServer shows the database client as the active
application, no windows are open yet.
• The user selects Form - Customers in the menu. This should open a
form presenting some data from the database. Buildung the form from
markup, generating the uielements and displayGroups and bindings and
fetching data from a - possibly remote database - can take a while, 10s
or more for large forms with many uielements and a thin database
connections.
It would really help if the user got visual feedback in form of an
hourglass or the like. As mentioned I don't know whether Busy.app
already does this. But making the titlebar translucent wouldn't help in
this case since there is no window yet!
Just a few thaughts!
Regards,
Andreas
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