Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
On Sep 27, 2005, at 8:00 PM, Danny Pansters wrote:
But I think what may be a problem is that the normal? people don't
see any
"progress" or rather movement then. Which may lead them to think
that the
system is stalled. It's my understanding that something like a
"progress" bar
like WinXP has (it doesn't need to show progress, just that
something's going
on behind the splash) would be very hard if not impossible to add. But
perhaps it is or can be made possible to have a gif or a bitmap in
which a
partial clipping changes every second or so (some left-to-right-and-
back
moving thingie).
You can do what Mac OS X does under Tiger -- it uses a canned
progress bar based
on timing done from previous boots. They time how long the boot
process is where
they want the progress bar and then put up a canned one that moves
and lists what
it is doing, but that list is just timed for the average boot time
and is not actually
synced to show the correct actions in the boot as they happen. (At
least that was
how it was explained in forum I am on)
Chad
In light of this hopefully-soon-to-be-dead thread's title and general course
of discussion, we should probably just have a big two-frame animated GIF
of Bill (whichever one you want) that alternately faces left and right with
horns one direction and a halo the other. ;-)
Give my regards to /dev/null, as I'll give your replies likewise,
Kevin Kinsey
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