Re: [guide-user] No 'progress' bar

Bill J Gray May 1, 2004

Hi Kevin,

Correct, there's no 'progress' bar. That's because Guide can't
find out what the size of that file is in advance; it just reads
bytes until it can't get any more.

I can duck around this because we _do_ have a general idea as to
the size of these files (they don't vary a lot), so it could say
"X KBytes of about Y KBytes", giving a vague idea as to the progress...
and in cases where Guide really has _no_ idea how big a file will be,
it can say "X Kbytes of ??? KBytes" (a dodge used by the Mozilla browser,
and perhaps others, when it doesn't know how many bytes to expect.)

This improvement will have to wait, though; right now, I'm fixing
only "for-real" bugs in Guide, until a known-to-be-stable update is
posted. (Sounds as if we're close to that. If anyone has found
otherwise, please speak up.)

-- Bill