#111 "Stop" button during long multi-file search

[Sylvain Loiseau]

While searching in a very large file-set, the names of the files searched are printed in the status bar.

I'm wondering if the search progression could not been shown in a Levelndicator control in a modal dialog with a "stop" button in order to kill a search going on for too long.

This may sound cosmetic, but not having a way to stop a long process is an uncomfortable experience. While rebuilding indexes, a LevelIndicator is shown in the status bar. But this may be an unusual place for a stop button (and the status bar is mostly devoted to non-blocking information, and it is optional. Yes, I keep arguing against the status bar :-)

[Bernard Desgraupes]

It would be nice indeed to have an API to provide this can of feedback and to implement some kind of Stop button. Not sure how to do that.

[Bernard Desgraupes]

This is done. I have implemented the following:

• a new package called progressWindows which provides the API to display progress windows containing a progress bar and a stop button. See the doc in Progress Windows Help.
• a new core command peekEvent.
• the hyperSearch package has been modified to take advantage of the new progress windows.

Changes committed to the repository (rev. 1297 (sourceforge.net)). The core must be rebuilt.