Progress Bar

[Pete]

Thanks Scott and Richard.  I think I've got my algorithm to determine when
to update the progress bar nicely tuned now.

I'm a little confused by the lock screen thing though.  Isn't lock screen
for when you don't want screen changes to be seen?

Pete

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Richard Gaskin
<ambassador at fourthworld.com>wrote:

> Pete wrote:
>
> > It takes about 2.5 times longer to process my test data with a
> > progress bar than without one.
> ...
>
> > I calculate the update interval by dividing the number of records to
> > be processed by 100 with a minimum of 10 to deal with small data
> > sets.  I guess maybe I can play around with the divisor of 100 to
> > see what yields the best blend of performance while still showing
> > progress.
>
> Yes, the longer interval between updates will help a lot.
>
> This is true for all OSes, but even more so on the Mac with the rich
> rendering required for the Aqua progress indicator.
>
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