View Full Version : "loading..." (busy/activity/progress indicator)
just a though, but right now when you navigate to a folder with mp3's and it's loading/parsing the tags, the app is 'frozen', at least the display is. how about say 'loading...." just so people know it's not locked up.
--jaga
another reason i suggested this, is that when the remote batteries start to get low, sometimes the button presses don't send. so i often don't know if it's loading another folder/screen, locked up, or the ir code was never sent.
--jaga
thebeast
2004-03-25, 21:30
i would like a little red/green/? colored blinking circle "status indicator" in the corner for all processes that take up "longer time".
there could also be one red when recording a shoutcast stream.
yeah, me votes for this too. or possibly a progress bar when it is filling the cache when you start playing a movie!
silentyl
2004-03-26, 03:31
thebeast: there already is a red flashing "rec" when shoutcast streams are recording..
yeh this would be especially great..smb(or any other protocol for that matter) takes time to cache...so i'd like to know if its working or not
in xbmp, as soon as we pressed a button for an avi(for example)..the screen went black, then the file would play..however in xbmc the screen stays at the menu, until the file is played...always found this a bit annoying..so a progress/cachebar would be awesome
Gamester17
2004-03-26, 12:17
actually cptanpanic coded a generic busy indicator for xbmp (was later improved by bobbin007) but it was never implemented:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker....=508680 (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=782364&group_id=64793&atid=508680) *maybe a developer could port it to xbmc?, and improve the code for it if needed?
though personaly i like it to be something else than a cube, suggest timeglass, maybe even make it skinnable/configurable http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/forums/non-cgi/emoticons/cool.gif
Gamester17
2004-03-26, 12:22
more suggestion for showing feedback, like a dialog or activity symbol can be found here => http://sourceforge.net/tracker....=817635 (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=87054&atid=581841&func=detail&aid=817635)
cameronsto
2004-03-26, 16:23
actually cptanpanic coded a generic busy indicator for xbmp (was later improved by bobbin007) but it was never implemented:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker....=508680 (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=782364&group_id=64793&atid=508680) *maybe a developer could port it to xbmc?, and improve the code for it if needed?
though personaly i like it to be something else than a cube, suggest timeglass, maybe even make it skinnable/configurable http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/forums/non-cgi/emoticons/cool.gif
skinnable/configurable sounds good to me. in my opinion i'd just like an animated gif to be displayed. doesn't necessarily have to give me an accurate status like percent done or anything. just something moving so i know it's still doing something.
-cameron
Mental Block
2004-03-26, 17:47
would be great idea. good idea for percentage cached before opening video or what ever.
at the moment a lot of things appear to "freeze" and then move on when you select them, making you wonder if you have pressed the button.
this should also help for debugging.
eg if the busy status is still saying busy program could be stuck in loop, if it stops then program has crashed.
you tend to know if the xbox has crashed while debugging anyway. ;)
it would be handy for general use though.
hmm i did suggest something similar along da lines of on screen leds that show netwrk/hd/dvd rom acess but cool idea n e way :-))
i have the same problem with my remote; sometimes the keypress has failed, yet i am waiting thinking it worked.
there is no instant feedback to let you know whether something is happening or not.
soundwall
2004-09-11, 22:51
you guys should implement a dialog saying "buffering subtitles" or "caching subtitles" when opening files with subtitles (vobsubs for example).
the delay is very long at times, and only black screen makes (the wife) think xbox has hung and reboots...
often she goes into a loop with this, and ends up pissed off hehehehe
i remember such a dialog was displayed on xbmp... any chance of getting it back? ;)
i was thinking the very same thing, i *think* there's such a dialog box displayed when it takes a while to display a dir full of mp3's with tags enabled.
but this would be very handy, just a small dialog box mentioning the fact that it's busy cacheing them, since it can take a while with large vobsubs.
Gamester17
2004-09-12, 13:01
fyi, there is already an official feature request for this on sourceforge.net here => "show feedback, like a dialog or activity symbol (link) (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=87054&atid=581841&func=detail&aid=817635)"
MidKnight
2004-09-12, 18:09
this would be a great thing to have added
MidKnight
2005-07-28, 04:59
how about a little feature to display an hour glass type of thing when xbmc is waiting for something, like browsing directories, as this would be handy for those on wireless and the extra time delay it takes to load an iso file for example. as sometimes it seems nothing is happening, or xbmc seems stopped. so such a feature would be a nice gui display i believe.
it doesn't have to be an hour glass of course, maybe a small popup "please wait..." would do it just nicely
i see that we have progress bars when buffering video now, great work!
my xbox is on a slow wireless network link, and all media is accessed from a samba share on a netbsd box. earlier i didn't know if
- the signal from the remote actually got through, or
- xbmc crashed, or
- the video actually pre-buffering, or
- the video file was corrupt
now, there's still one place where a progress bar / hour glass is needed. as my shares are on this slow network link, fetching large directories takes awhile. again, i don't know if the signal from the remote actually got through etc.
has anyone thought of implementing an hour glass when parsing networked directories? is it feasible? it could be as "easy" as:
instead of
select item --> fetch directory --> display directory
do
select item --> blinksomething() --> fetch directory --> display directory
.. but i guess it's usually far more involved programming a feature than describing it.
noone else has this problem? i still never quite know whether the remote keypress to access my mp3 directory (which really takes awhile to scan) has come through or not...
RockDawg
2006-05-31, 05:45
i know xbmc is currently in a feature freeze, but this seems more like a finishing touch than a new feature imo.
it would be nice if xbmc would display a progress bar or something while loading a file (especially a dvd). *i constantly get about a 4-5 second pause between selecting a movie and the start of playback. *the pause itself isn't much of a problem, but it would seem much more polished if it there was something to indicate that xbmc was wokring and not just hanging.
whenever i have friends and family over and they are playing around with my videos in xbmc they always think something is wrong because they click on a movie and nothing happens for a few. *sometimes they start clicking a bunch of different buttons thinking they have done something wrong and i have seen an instance or two where it caused xbmc to lockup. *i don't fault xbmc for locking up in that scenario, but some sort of "file loading" indicator would all but eliminate the confusion and make things seem more responsive.
just my $0.02!