wanted. english word.

[Delaney, Timothy]

> "Pete Shinners" <shredwheat at mediaone.net> writes:
> 
> > [Laura Creighton]
> > > What do you call the thing that pops up and says `Searching' or
> > > something to reassure the user that his computer hasn't crashed
> > > and the application is still running?
> > 
> > a general description is "Progress Dialog"
> 
> A progress dialog only applies to a process that has a quantifiable
> end; she's looking for something that will take "a while" for some
> unknowable value of "a while".  I recommended "hourglass", since
> that's what they used to call it in the Macintosh Human Interface
> Guidelines (remember when Apple's GUI designs were based on iterations
> of user testing and not on glitz and whim?).

Nope - it's the barber-shop pole lying on it's side. It's still called a
"Progress Dialog", but rather than having a progress bar, it's got a
barber-shop pole turning.

The hourglass is what is (or used to be) used for the mouse cursor. It's a
good idea to use both.

Tim Delaney