Hello.

I need a widget that's demonstrates the user, that work is in progress.

It's about a small GUI for a console programm. The shutdown of this console programm takes about 10-40 sec, and no progress info is avaible. So I want to display a widget with the message "Please wait while shutting down...".

As no progress info is avaible, I can't use a normal progress bar. However I want to use something that's moving - to demonstrate to the user that the app isn't frozen.

I've seen widgets (for example in firefox), which are like similar to a progress bar, but the blue beam moves continiously from the left to the right and back.

Exists such a Qt/KDE4 class? Or exists another solution to this problem?

Regards.

Tim

There's something that looks like e.g. Firefox' activity indicator (round thing in the top right corner). Folderview uses it I think. Unfortunately I don't know anything more about it

EDIT: I think the word "widget" confused me. I was sure that you were talking about a plasmoid! Guess it's time for me to go to sleep...

Take a look at http://doc.trolltech.com/4.2/qprogressbar.html#details
It is a normal progressbar but has the advantage of a busy indicator when the time cannot really be determined.

neverendingo wrote:Take a look at http://doc.trolltech.com/4.2/qprogressbar.html#details
It is a normal progressbar but has the advantage of a busy indicator when the time cannot really be determined.

If minimum and maximum both are set to 0, the bar shows a busy indicator instead of a percentage of steps. This is useful, for example, when using QFtp or QHttp to download items when they are unable to determine the size of the item being downloaded.

Thanks.

I've tried QProgressBar with min/max = 0 and it works great. (I just didn't read this last paragraph in the Qt documentation).

EDIT: BTW: I've now found also a special "busy widget" in libplasma: http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdelibs-apid ... idget.html