Re: Progress gauge review

Hrvoje> My `small' progress gauge was modeled after that, but it Hrvoje> still displayed in a gutter rather than in the echo area Hrvoje> where it should be. Huh? I mean, this is what gutters are _for_. The modeline is a specialized per-window gutter object, the echo area/minibuffer is a somewhat less specialized per-frame gutter. Historically they don't happen to be implemented that way, of course, but they _could_. To my mind, the real question is not "why isn't the progress gauge in echo area?", it's "why isn't the echo area in the gutter?", not to mention "When should gutters be `visual unions' (eg minibuffer + echo area) and when `structs' (menubar + toolbar)?" and "Should gutters be so volatile?" and "Are gutters frame components or window components?" So let's not limit the rethink to "progress bars". -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."