Hi, >> 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.
No, this approach makes sense only for planned long-term activities. But you don't want to implement a progress indicator for just opening a form which normally takes a second or two but in special - not really forseeable - cases 6s - 10s. On MacOSX there is no need to actively tell the system that the app will be busy for a few seconds. MacOSX realizes this on its own and sets the hourglass accordingly when the mouse pointer is over a window or the applications menu. Regards, Andreas _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
