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Haha, nice. I tend to agree. Before he even said it, I looked at the progress bar and said "sweet, this is gonna to be short."

Upvote for psychology.

IMO most progress bars suck, they barely give you an indication of how long something will last. For example many progress bars will jump parts and hold again. Like boom I'm at 27%, then it takes a while slowly moves up to say 35%, then fast again to 90% and waiting a shitload of time for it to go to a 100%. Yes progress bars bother the hell out of me.

I am a long way through coding a large enterprise app, and I'd love to have progress bars in it... but that denotes previously knowing how much more there is to do/build/calculate. And unfortunately, with my app... I just don't know these things.

So, I'm stuck with, not spinny... but pulsy bar thingy.

Horray!

One of the first times I saw a progress bar was, I think, while installing an id Software game in DOS. But my expectations betrayed me; I expected the bar to move at a consistent pace, so I would have a good idea as to when the installation would be finished. But no. It progressed erratically and unpredictably, which just didn't seem right to me. All these years later, the same damn problem exists. Why can't somebody fix this? I realize it's probably not easy, but I seriously doubt that it would be difficult.

Also, while working on some old computers at work lately, I noticed that the progress bar in Windows 2000 would sometimes jump backwards, like I was suddenly traveling back through time. What the hell is that good for?!

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One of the first times I saw a progress bar was, I think, while installing an id Software game in DOS. But my expectations betrayed me; I expected the bar to move at a consistent pace, so I would have a good idea as to when the installation would be finished. But no. It progressed erratically and unpredictably, which just didn't seem right to me. All these years later, the same damn problem exists. Why can't somebody fix this? I realize it's probably not easy, but I seriously doubt that it would be difficult.
Also, while working on some old computers at work lately, I noticed that the progress bar in Windows 2000 would sometimes jump backwards, like I was suddenly traveling back through time. What the hell is that good for?!


It is actually very hard.

Trust me.

It is.

Progress bars are good, spinning icons are bad, the worst is progress bars that lie about progress. While installing a patch for Spore a couple of days ago, I was stuck looking at a 0% progress bar for a whole 6 minutes, then watching it go straight to 100% instantaneously, only to then watch it return to zero for the next 4 minutes. All of this, and there was *another* progress bar in the back telling me that the operation was 100% done, even from the start. I'd take spinning over that any day.

A background tune should play during any wait time, the best one would be the yodle tune in the Price is Right, and if possible with the climbing yodler as a visual cue. That would be nice.

"But did you know...
99% of surprises [Closeup] Suck."
BWAAHAHAHA

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Fuck you, spinning Apple busy thing.

Nice Libertarian anti-foreign-interventionist comment at 00:43.

apple progress bars have a special animation which is actually an advanced reality distortion field™ spinning technique to fool you into that sense of progress.

PROHGRESS

hehe - very nice... that's why I made http://progressbaroflife.com

It's Mac OSX only themed at this point - I'm needing people to submit progress bars from other OS's and 'devices' for me.

AB