Feedback During Long Install/Build
lazarus / 6-IDE-CodeTools

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kevin.black · 2019-03-25 04:44

One of the issues I continually have is that when installing a
component suite there are several times when it looks like it has
completed, but it hasn't. Likewise when rebuilding the IDE clean (for
example).

There have been a couple of times when NOTHING is happening and there
is no advice and I have been tempted to click the cancel button
because it doesn't seem there is anyway forward when, after some
minutes, the form (say for compiling/building) disappears and all is
good.

It would be useful, and I think fairly simple, to just change the
cursor to hourglass or pizza wheel on mac, or to display a message
(perhaps flashing) like 'Still working do not touch...'

I'm sure that would stop a lot of potential problems with users like
me prematurely terminating a (build?) process.

Just a thought......

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af0815 · 2019-03-25 06:17

Did you see nothing in the ide messagewindow ?