[Gambas-user] Issue 272 in gambas: Progress bars lack the "pulse" property for intermediate progress bar

[Bruce]

On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 21:02 +0000, gambas at ...2524... wrote:
> Status: New
> Owner: ----
> Labels: Version Type-Bug Priority-Medium OpSys-Any Dist-Any Arch-Any  
> Desktop-Any GUI-Any
> 
> New issue 272 by roman.ve... at ...626...: Progress bars lack the "pulse"  
> property for intermediate progress bar
> http://code.google.com/p/gambas/issues/detail?id=272
> 
> Progress bars are currently such that they can be set to a value, but GTK+  
> (I don't know about Qt) has a property called "pulse" as described here:  
> http://www.pygtk.org/docs/pygtk/class-gtkprogressbar.html#method-gtkprogressbar--pulse  
> which are also described as intermediate progress bars here:  
> http://developer.gnome.org/hig-book/3.0/controls-progress-bars.html.en#indeterminate-progress  
> for situations in which you want to say to the user "hey there's some  
> progress happening, but I can't reliably track it."
> 
> Gambas should include support for the intermediate or pulse progress bars  
> either as their own object or perhaps as simply a property to regular  
> progress bars.
> 
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