On 2007-08-15 14:33:25 +0200 Andreas Höschler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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! This raises the question how the system would know that the app is busy without the application telling the system explicitly. On (native) Windows an application itself may decide to display the busy cursor when a longer running action takes place. I think that the application as such must tell the system/the user that it will be unresponsive for a while, e.g by displaying a progress indicator. Cheers, Andreas -- Mail: aheppel at web dot de Home: http://www.andreasheppel.de Burn.app: http://gsburn.sourceforge.net PGP Key is available from the MIT key server (pgp.mit.edu).
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