| Re: [platform-swt-dev] Indeterminate Progress Bars |
I'm in favour. I like the style bit solution better.
"Chris McLaren"
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09/09/02 03:47 PM
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platform-swt-dev
I would like to propose that SWT support native indeterminate progress bars
(A progress bar widget where the total amount of work/time remaining is
unknown). SWT currently supports this notion through the custom widget
AnimatedProgress (used by JFace's ProgressIndicator), but a number of
platforms (Win XP, Mac OS X) now provide native widgets with a specific
look and feel.
Possible solutions are:
a) Add a style bit to ProgressBar indicating that the ProgressBar will be
rendered indeterminate (SWT.INDETERMINATE perhaps), and if this bit is set,
calls to ProgressBar.setMaximum, ProgressBar.setMinimum, and
ProgressBar.setSelection have no visible effect
b) Consider ProgressBar.setSelection (-1) to place the ProgressBar into
indeterminate rendering mode, where calls to ProgressBar.setMaximum and
ProgressBar.setMinimum have no visible effect.
AnimatedProgress could be deprecated, and ProgressIndicator could be easily
altered to support these changes.
Comments from the community?
Chris