query progress bar

[Scott David Daniels]

f wrote:
> Timothy Smith wrote:
> 
>> is it possible to mke a progress bar for queries? say i have a query 
>> that will take 20 seconds, i'd like to give some feed back to users on 
>> how long this will take.

> ....an activity widget, something moving (ie throbber in wxPython)
> while waiting for the result (like the rotating circle in firefox)....
The one extra thing you might want to do, if your application gets
regular use, is show elapsed time.  The user will come to know how
long it should take, while your application probably won't get any
smarter.

--Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org