Re: Progress gauge review
andy, i really think it's time to rethink the progress gauge.
i have seen no other application that intrusively resizes the main window in
order to display a progress gauge. both vc++ and ie, which are modern, fully
gui apps, use a much smaller progress gauge that fits in the status bar [the
echo area equivalent].
why can't we do the same?
Charles G Waldman wrote:
Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> Either font-lock should be fixed so that it doesn't attempt to display
> the spurious progress, or the progress bar should be adapted to handle
> the case more gracefully.
I don't know if this is even remotely possible, but it would be nice
if the progress bar could be suppressed for operations taking less
than, say, 1 second or so. The progress bar might be kind of nifty
for long operations, but I find it quite distracting to pop up a
progress bar for very quick operations.
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