[ptp-dev] Progress Monitors

[John Eblen <jeblen@xxxxxxx>]

Hi

I am trying to overhaul the progress monitoring for synchronized projects but

am having trouble. I would like for the task reporting to be recursive. That is,

each function creates its own submonitor and changes the subtask at various

points. These subtasks should be appended to the current subtask of the

parent. However, I can't figure out how to make this work.

The PREPEND_MAIN_LABEL_TO_SUBTASK flag is the closest option I've
found but doesn't really do what is needed. It is also not available for the newer
submonitors, only for the older subprogressmonitors. Additionally, progress monitors

do not have accessor methods for the subtask name or for the parent monitor.

The best solution I have at the moment is to implement a new submonitor class, which

adds these methods but forwards most operations to a normal submonitor instance. (Note

that the submonitor class is final, so cannot be subclassed.)

Before implementing this, though, I wanted to get some other opinions. It seems odd to me

that progress monitors are not recursive, and also that multiple Google searches can't seem

to find anyone else who has ever had this problem. So my intuition tells me that I may be

either missing something obvious, or I'm using progress monitors incorrectly.

Thanks

John