----- Original Message ----- From: "Dilwyn Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 2:55 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Progress bar
> > > >>Sun used a spinner to show work being done. Basically it's a dash > (-) then > > >>a slahs (\) then anther dash, and then the other slash (/). When > printed > > >>at the same location, it looks like it's spinning. > > and a host of others. > > This spinning chr is also on Promise Raid card. > > ... and in XTreeGold. > And closer to home, by Geoff Wicks in his programs, e.g. in QL2PC > while transferring a large file. There is nothing particularly clever in this. QL-2-PC is transfering word processings files byte by byte and everytime it comes across a full stop it prints either a forward or backward slash. This is just to let the user know that the program and the computer had not crashed. I have just rebuilt a QTYP dictionary using QTYP_ded and this program does not have this facility. You spend a lot of time wondering if there has been a crash. QL-2-PC always checks the length of a file and it would be a simple matter to have a bar indicating progress, but I wonder whether this would be worthwhile. Most transfers are fairly quick and adding a progress routine would slow down the process. BTW I shall use the opportunity to publicise my new email address - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - this is my prefered address from now on, although I shall keep the hotmail address for a little while yet. Geoff Wicks.
