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How should I alter my programs progress bar?
An application I have just been asked 'to take care of' has some interesting code features.
One is that when it is loading up the login screen, it displays a 'splash' with a progress bar. This splash ...
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Should progress bars show percentage
In the application I am designing we are currently just displaying a circle that rotates clockwise from gray to green. Inside the circle is a number indicating where in the process it is (20, 50, 90). ...
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Showing progress for a long many-step process with a discrete progress bar?
I've got a desktop-focused web application where the user is going to be initiating tasks that take a long time. Sometimes, these tasks will take hours to complete (users don't have to do anything ...
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How should I display a “please wait” animation?
I have to create a "please wait" page on our website. I would think you usually put the words "please wait" with some kind of spinning animation, but do I really need text?
Doesn't an hourglass or ...
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Progress Indicator suggestions for multithreaded operations?
In the old version of our application, the operations performed during loading were sequential. We indicated progress by updating a single-line text string with the component that was being loaded. ...
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Do progress bars help completion rates?
I'm expanding on a question I posed in comments on How do you indicate progress to users in a multi-step form?.
Roland made the comment "because everybody wants to reach 100% percent" when discussing ...
