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From: mxmora@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Progress indicator/thermometers
Message-ID: <25175@unix.SRI.COM>
Date: 6 Jun 91 17:54:29 GMT
References: <25104@unix.SRI.COM> <22235@imag.imag.fr> <11326@bunny.GTE.COM>
Reply-To: mxmora@unix.sri.com (Matt Mora)
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
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In article <11326@bunny.GTE.COM> mlh1@gte.com (Michael Hackney) writes:
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>There are also some sources on America Online for Think C and Pascal that do
>"thermometers".   The "candy stripes" are nice though because you do not have
>to calculate the %time of the task your monitoring.

Then what's the point of displaying candy stripes? That's kind of silly
to bring up a window just to display an indicator that indicates nothing!
Why don't you just spin the beach ball?

Anyway, I wasn't asking about the "candy stripes". I was asking about the 
progress bar that is used when you copy a file. 

Are there any finder engineers on the net? Does anybody have a email address
for one? I think this is a Human Interface issue that Apple should solve.

Let me know how to get the colors and I will write a cdef to do it.

Maybe I should send a letter to Tog about this.

mxm

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