Subject: Re: Feature suggestion. Word Count on import.
From: Thomas Fletcher (thomasf@qnx.com)
Date: Fri Jun 02 2000 - 09:29:32 CDT
On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Martin Sevior wrote:
>
> I'm currently testing Jamie's new OLE-enabled wv. I'm importing a deadly
> Word file. So far the import has taken about 15 minutes. I'm not sure if
> I'm in an infinate loop. Anyway even on less deadly files loading files
> often takes a long time.
>
> What do people think about popping up an auto-updating Word Count dialog
> during a file loading so we can watch the load progress?
>
> It may not be hard to do this. If people think this is stupid because
> doing a word count on a loading file will screw up the process, please
> let me know!
I think that this is not so good. What I would rather
see is the new frame come up and be visible, and then
use the status area at the bottom of the frame to do
a nice XAP implementation of a progress bar. Essentially
a barber pole type of thing where we could overlay some
text perhaps indicating the number of lines processed,
or words or whatever.
I'm very opposed to popping up a Word Count dialog during
this process. I'd much rather see this be implemented
as a generic part of the progress bar (yes I'll volunteer)
in the status bar so we can use if for other things like
image loading and other possibly lengthy operations.
Thomas
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Thomas (toe-mah) Fletcher QNX Software Systems
thomasf@qnx.com Neutrino Development Group
(613)-591-0931 http://www.qnx.com/~thomasf
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