All Over Software Jobs: Re: [flexcoders] Timed Progress bar for 2 minutes.

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

The OP has said what it's doing - a firmware update. It takes 2-3 minutes. It's not a db transaction.

On 11/01/2012, at 4:01 AM, Paul Andrews wrote:

On 10/01/2012 16:46, Venkat M wrote:

My application will try to connect to a java framework, which in turn calls some scripts to execute on a server.

If it is a firmware update script that is called, it will typically wait for 2-3 minutes before the update on the server is complete. So I have to keep user understand that process is going on (or else, they may think the system is hanged or not responding with 2 minutes of spinning), to provide some understandably, I am thinking of static pooling a progress bar for 2-3 (standard time which we know) minutes that looks more user friendly. What say?

I have never worked on a server that took two or three minutes to update. Usually more than a few seconds is considered unacceptable.

Where there have been operations performed on the server that take a long time, I usually have status changes informing the user what is happening. For example, on one system, multiple printouts initiated by differrent users were queued for printing. Each job included a processing element, so the jobhas various statuses QUEUED/ACTIVE/PRINTING/PRINTED/PAUSED/CANCELLED and the user had access to those statuses. I don't know if such a system would apply here, or you just have a very bad database server doing incredibly slow updates.

What is your server doing?

Paul

Cheers,

Venkat.

From: Paul Andrews <paul@ipauland.com>
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 4:13 AM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Timed Progress bar for 2 minutes.

On 10/01/2012 09:17, claudiu ursica wrote:

Are you sure it is exactly 2 minutes?

DO you really need to show progress? A spinning animation might suit you better, keep it spinning until the load is done.

It would just look like the application had hung.

As Rick suggested, two minutes is a very long time. What is it that takes two minutes to be ready?

If it's a database query, I'd suggest sorting out the server, because two minutes is a ridiculous amount of time to be waiting for a result.

It really looks like your application has a fundamental problem.

Paul

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From: Venkat M <venkat_yum@yahoo.com>
To: "flexcoders@yahoogroups.com" <flexcoders@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 2:09 AM
Subject: [flexcoders] Timed Progress bar for 2 minutes.

Hi,

I have a scenario in my application.

I know that the wait time for the response is 2 minutes.

Can someone let me know how we can run a progress bar for 2 minutes loading from 0% to 100% in the same 2 minutes?

Or

Is there a better way to indicate the wait for 2 minutes? (This is a fixed wait time)

Cheers,

Venkat.