Re: Progress gauge review
At 04:21 PM 6/2/00 +0200, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
Some time ago I started using lesstif on my Linux machine. I noticed
that the progress bar looks like a slider. Is that intentional? On
Yes - the other gauge is an athena widget in theory. It would be nice if
Motif had a real progress gauge. I notice that Sun have used sliders as
progress gauges in the past.
the cool side, the flicker is much less noticable than with Athena,
which flickers horribly.
Yes, I don't know whether this is the widget or the redisplay code at
fault. I would say the latter except that neither motif or windows flashes
like this.
Also, the `Stop' button does not seem to do anything. I don't
know if
that's lesstif-specific.
Hmm, it used to. I haven't tried compiling with Motif for a while - I'll
take a look when I get a chance.
Thirdly, it causes weird stuff in empty files. It might as well be a
font-lock bug, but slider/progress-gauge makes it very noticable. Try
opening a new .c file:
C-x C-f ~/a.c RET
Now start typing characters into it. What I notice is the bottom of
the screen flashing like mad because a gutter forms to create a
progress bar, and immediately disappears. The problem goes away once
you insert a newline character.
Hmmn.
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.
Maybe the progress gauge shouldn't popup for incremental updates ...
andy
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Dr Andy Piper
Principal Consultant, BEA Systems Ltd