On Friday 07 March 2008, Clemens Koller wrote:
ACK from my side to Jerry's version. Maybe a quite long fixed length (~40 characters) bar would also be reasonable and the dot-time scaled to fit the progress.
A progress bar needs IMO two informations:
- that it's still working... so a quite frequent output of something to
keep me calm. - how long it will take... so I know how much time I will have to get the next cup of coffee to keep me tickin'.
Perfect (= close to overkill, I know) would be IMO an additional output like:
Programming Flash from 0xc0ldbeef to 0xc0ldcafe takes 112s. ................. |
So, I don't need to estimate from the first dots how long it will take to complete.
I don't think printing the programming time/speed at beginning of the operation is doable. At least not without bigger changes. But an output at end of the operation like:
Wrote 512kB in 5.4 seconds (94,8 kB/s)
would be nice. This way the developer could see, if the interface to the FLASH chips is optimized. But I think this is overkill too. Let's concentrate on a clean progress bar with a fixed length.
Patches welcome. :)
Best regards, Stefan
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