This isn't specific to any one product nor publisher: It is quite common that non-deterministic progress bars - "barber poles" - are displayed when a deterministic process is taking place such as the download of a file whose size is known ahead of time.
To the extent that deterministic progress bars are used, other than - for the most part but not always - correct that they indicate that the process has completed, they are largely incorrect throughout the duration of the process. That is, if I download one gigabyte, that the progress bar is at ten percent doesn't have any particular relation to anything that I can tell. What I find most exasperating is that progress bars continue to, uh... "progress" despite that the process clearly being hung; I expect that's the result of running the bar in a different thread than the process. Back in the day it was common to litter one's code with "SpinCursor". That wasn't a Toolbox Trap, rather it was a convention that most developers followed. But then some joker got the idea it would be cool to spin his cursor from a VBLTask. That quite commonly resulted in the entire Mac OS being hung as the cursor continued to spin. I know all manner of ways to avoid these problems, doubtlessly you do too. Finally I will say that little details like this disproportionately impact my purchasing decisions. I am completely cool that your app crashes once in a blue moon what I cannot tolerate is _constant_ aggravation. Curmudgeonly Yours, Mike Michael David Crawford P.E., Consulting Process Architect mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://mike.soggywizard.com/ One Must Not Trifle With Wizards For It Makes Us Soggy And Hard To Light. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
