Bye-bye beastie ...

[Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC]

On Sep 27, 2005, at 8:00 PM, Danny Pansters wrote:

>
> But I think what may be a problem is that the normal? people don't  
> see any
> "progress" or rather movement then. Which may lead them to think  
> that the
> system is stalled. It's my understanding that something like a  
> "progress" bar
> like WinXP has (it doesn't need to show progress, just that  
> something's going
> on behind the splash) would be very hard if not impossible to add. But
> perhaps it is or can be made possible to have a gif or a bitmap in  
> which a
> partial clipping changes every second or so (some left-to-right-and- 
> back
> moving thingie).


You can do what Mac OS X does under Tiger -- it uses a canned  
progress bar based on timing done from previous boots.  They time how  
long the boot process is where they want the progress bar and then  
put up a canned one that moves and lists what it is doing, but that  
list is just timed for the average boot time and is not actually  
synced to show the correct actions in the boot as they happen.  (At  
least that was how it was explained in forum I am on)

Chad

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