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talmage at acm

Apr 14, 2011, 1:16 PM

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How to display progress while fetching contacts?

I'm looking for a platform-independent way to display the progress of a
QContactFetchRequest. Can any of you suggest a solution? I've found a couple
of partial solutions but nothing completely satisfactory.

QProgressBar would be perfect if I knew how many contacts to expect. I don't
know that. I only know when the QContactFetchRequest begins, when some
results arrive, and when it ends.

QMaemo5InformationBox::information() with a timeout value of
QMaemo5InformationBox::NoTimeout is informative but the user can (or must?)
dismiss it by tapping on the screen. I don't want that. In addition, with a
name like QMaemo5InformationBox, I don't expect that I will be able to use it
on Symbian devices or whatever else I port my application to.

I'm going to look into QStatusBar.

I welcome other ideas from all of you.

Dave
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josephcharpak at comcast

Apr 14, 2011, 3:29 PM

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Re: How to display progress while fetching contacts? [In reply to]

On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:16:01 -0400
David Talmage <talmage [at] acm> wrote:

> I'm looking for a platform-independent way to display the progress of
> a QContactFetchRequest. Can any of you suggest a solution? I've
> found a couple of partial solutions but nothing completely
> satisfactory.
>
> QProgressBar would be perfect if I knew how many contacts to expect.
> I don't know that. I only know when the QContactFetchRequest begins,
> when some results arrive, and when it ends.
>
> QMaemo5InformationBox::information() with a timeout value of
> QMaemo5InformationBox::NoTimeout is informative but the user can (or
> must?) dismiss it by tapping on the screen. I don't want that. In
> addition, with a name like QMaemo5InformationBox, I don't expect that
> I will be able to use it on Symbian devices or whatever else I port
> my application to.
>
> I'm going to look into QStatusBar.
>
The technical term you're looking for is a "throbber". Do a google
search for qt and throbber.

This url sounded on topic:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3301866/using-pyqt-and-qt4-is-this-the-proper-way-to-get-a-throbber-in-a-qtabwidget-tab
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