Progress Bar

[Pete]

Thanks Geoff, I like the concept of time based updated rather than based on
number of records processed.
Pete

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Geoff Canyon <gcanyon at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'll throw my 2 cents in here as well -- I've found that it doesn't impact
> performance significantly to check ticks() each time through the loop. So
> instead of a fixed number of iterations, which can lead to a jumpy progress
> bar or excessive updates if what you're doing in the loop varies much, I do
> this:
>
> if ticks() > T then
>  --update the progress bar
>  put ticks() + 10 into T -- your choice how smooth you want it
> end if
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Mar 29, 2012, at 6:20 PM, Scott Rossi <scott at tactilemedia.com> wrote:
>
> > Use a counter to increment progress
> > every 2nd, 5th, 10th loop (whatever makes sense), so updating progress
> has a
> > lower impact on the repeat loop.
>
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