And, MAYBE, show you status on what it is doing if you are single threaded.Īh yes of course, similar as to why the file transfer 'time remaining' estimate is so difficult to implement/interpret. So, so far, the best solution was found to have 1 progress bar or percentage based on tasks.

You can be burred with progress bars and text going all over the placeīy the way, all this is in big discussion by GUI designers. You have the restarting progress bar problem, which visually looks wrong The more info you have, the more it slows down thingsĪdds complications in understanding what is happening Showing all this, slows down the process. And what about multi-tasking? How do you show all this? Should your screen be split by the number of CPU cores you have, and based on the number of tasks or sub tasks, where each you have a set of progress bars? And on top of that you need to show text indicating exactly what it is doing.īut wait, now you have more problem not solved. so you need a spinning wheel, or progress bar animation. However, it doesn't show if the setup might be stuck or doing something. The solution to the problem is 2 progress bar, where 1 shows the process of the current task, and the other showing you the overall progress. It was to explain the why progress bar/percentage of setups in general). And then task 91 is copying all your several GB of data, then you'll be stuck there for a very long time. Task 1 to 90 might be simple registry changes, so that jumps from 0 to 90 instantly. So if you have 100 tasks to do, 1 task = 1%. It's because the percentage represent the percentage of tasks that needs to be done, its not based on calculated amount of work. I've never found Windows installs to be reliable They power through the first ~90% like it's nothing and then just stay there for whatever amount of time it pleases.

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