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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

2017-03-08 22:33 GMT+01:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On 3/8/2017 4:08 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
>> That's why I submitted such a trivial patch to the list first, I figured
>> someone would say something ;)
>>
>> It does make sense to me, because the GUI is blocked. The busy cursor
>> says to me "yes, the GUI is supposed to be blocked right now, it's not
>> frozen". Even with a progress bar, it can seem unresponsive -
>> particularly if 1) the progress bar ends up obscured, as can happen with
>> 'weird' window managers sometimes, or 2) if a single library takes a
>> particularly long time to load, which I'm sure will only get worse if we
>> eventually allow loading them over the internet like for footprint libs.
>
> It's the old belt and suspender method.  Users have got to quit using
> those 'weird' window managers.  It causes way too much grief.  I'm
> surprised that a single library load takes long enough to need a busy
> cursor but I'm not opposed to the patch.  Does the progress bar in
> wxWidgets have a continuous mode?  That doesn't solve the hidden
> progress window issue though.
>

I like the non-continous mode.

Slow?  I have noticed that the library loading slowness appeared with
the new IO manager thing. Although I don't have any proff to quanify
that.

>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 03:55:10PM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>>> Does showing a progress dialog and a busy cursor at the same time make
>>> sense?
>>>
>>> On 3/8/2017 3:36 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> This patch enables display of the "busy" cursor while schematic
>>>> libraries are being loaded. Tested on Linux, Windows 10, and macOS
>>>> 10.12.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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