Filter Forge - UI Enhancement Request: A more verbose progress indicator

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opw Posts: 16	Certain filters, such as "Couch Fashion" or "Boucle Fabric Factory" take quite a while to even begin rendering. This delay (of about 20 seconds on my dual core 2.4GHZ Macbook Pro with 4 GB of RAM and a GeForce 8600M GT GPU) will make the user think the app has hung or that the filter is buggy. A very simple and effective solution to this would be to replace your normal progress indicator with a circular progress indicator. When the user clicks the filter it should be "indeterminate" and then switch to determinate mode when it is actually rendering. When nothing is rendering, make sure it stays hidden!
	Posted: January 7, 2009 6:43 pm	Details E-Mail
Crapadilla lvl 52 Filter Weaver and Official "Filter Forge Seer" Posts: 4365 Filters: 65	That's the dreaded 'first block delay' (see here). +1 though, nice suggestion! --- Crapadilla says: "Damn you, stupid redundant feature requests!" ;)
	Posted: January 8, 2009 10:38 am	Details E-Mail
GMM Moderator Filter Forge, Inc Posts: 3491	I'm moving this thread into the 'Feature Wishlist' forum, as it is not Mac-specific.
	Posted: January 10, 2009 5:58 am	Details E-Mail
StevieJ Designer/Artist Posts: 11264 Filters: 163	Very good suggestion..... Steve "Buzzards gotta eat...same as worms..." - Clint :)
	Posted: January 10, 2009 3:02 pm	Details E-Mail

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