busy indicator
François Pinard
pinard at iro.umontreal.ca
Wed Aug 7 08:01:24 EDT 2002
[Peter Hansen]
> But be aware of the potential for such a spinner to be sitting merrily
> spinning away indicating the successful progression of the other thread,
> when in fact the other thread is stuck or done, or locked up somehow,
[...]
I still remember having been shocked (but I was fairly young) when Lotus
1-2-3 displayed a flashing "WAIT" (using the blink bit of the video card),
and then froze. :-)
Progress indicators should ideally be tied to the mechanics of progress.
Despite these comments, the spinning demo was nice! :-)
--
François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard
More information about the Python-list
mailing list