Il giorno ven, 25/04/2008 alle 12.23 -0500, Shaun McCance ha scritto: > I'd like to solicit ideas on two related types of controls. > > First, what about pie-filling progress indicators? They > clearly show actual progress, but they aren't bars. Do > we have a word for these things? Progress indicators :-). Maybe that's why Microsoft and Apple solicit using this terminology: would they ever change how the widget is shown/rendered, the documentation wouldn't need to change. It's the already-discussed practice of separating what a widget does by how a widget looks like. > > Second, what about countdown controls? They basically > look like progress bars (or sometimes "progress pies"), > but the control moves backward. They aren't showing > progress. Usually, they're showing a timeout. I don't have any strong opinion on these, but what about "pulsing" progress bars, the ones where a cursor move forward and backward inside the bar, since there's no exact progress information? How do you call them? They're quite used afaik (for example, try installing a package in Ubuntu...) Regards, Matteo
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