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May 17, 2006, at 07:10 AM by bd - Link to screen snapshots

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if you want to display a more accurate information, you can use the application-wide progress bar located in the status bar (and invisible by default).

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if you want to display a more accurate information, you can use the application-wide progress bar located in the status bar (and invisible by default). See the screen snapshots on the ProgressBarCommand page on this Wiki.

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May 17, 2006, at 07:07 AM by bd - Centered image

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if you are just interested in giving the user some kind of visual indication that something is in progress, you can display a small rotating indicator in the bottom right corner of the current window: of course this assumes that there is a current window and that it has a message bar! The rotating indicator is an asynchronous progress indicator (of type chasing arrows) like what the system displays when the computer is starting.

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if you are just interested in giving the user some kind of visual indication that something is in progress, you can display a small rotating indicator in the bottom right corner of the current window: of course this assumes that there is a current window and that it has a message bar! The rotating indicator is an asynchronous progress indicator (of type chasing arrows) like what the system displays when the computer is starting:

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May 17, 2006, at 07:06 AM by bd - Image of async progress indicator

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May 16, 2006, at 09:17 PM by bd - List element

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if you are just interested in giving the user some kind of visual indication that something is in progress, you can display a small rotating indicator in the bottom right corner of the current window: of course this assumes that there is a current window and that it has a message bar! The

rotating indicator is an asynchronous progress indicator (of type chasing arrows) like what the system displays when the computer is starting.

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if you are just interested in giving the user some kind of visual indication that something is in progress, you can display a small rotating indicator in the bottom right corner of the current window: of course this assumes that there is a current window and that it has a message bar! The rotating indicator is an asynchronous progress indicator (of type chasing arrows) like what the system displays when the computer is starting.

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May 13, 2006, at 06:08 PM by bd - Progress indicators in AlphaX

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(:title Progress indicators in AlphaX:)

Introduction

Starting with version 8.1a4, AlphaX offers two ways of displaying a progress indicator when a lengthy operation is being processed:

if you are just interested in giving the user some kind of visual indication that something is in progress, you can display a small rotating indicator in the bottom right corner of the current window: of course this assumes that there is a current window and that it has a message bar! The

rotating indicator is an asynchronous progress indicator (of type chasing arrows) like what the system displays when the computer is starting.

if you want to display a more accurate information, you can use the application-wide progress bar located in the status bar (and invisible by default).

Displaying the per-window indicator

The rotating indicator is controlled by the new busy property defined with the [setWinInfo] and [getWinInfo] commands. Here are the basic instructions to show or hide this indicator respectively:

 
     setWinInfo -w $w busy 1
     setWinInfo -w $w busy 0

where $w is the name of the current window.

To query the state of the indicator (visible or not) use [getWinInfo]

 
     getWinInfo -w $w arr

where $w is the name of the current window and arr is the name of an array. The state is stored in $arr(busy).

Displaying the main progress bar

The progress bar is controlled by the [progressBar] command which is explained in ProgressBarCommand

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