POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Try Haskell : Re: Try Haskell Server Time
4 Sep 2024 17:20:59 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Try Haskell  
From: Invisible
Date: 5 Mar 2010 08:45:06
Message: <4b910ae2$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> If you can't estimate progress in a meaningful way, don't pretend that 
>> you can. ;-)
> 
>   What I ended up doing instead was to show the current search path as
> lines of changing colors over the puzzle, updating a few times per second.
> Doesn't tell you much about the progress, but shows clearly that the
> program is doing something.

Right. And IMHO, that would be a correct solution. It makes it clear 
that something is happening, without giving the user inaccurate progress 
indications.


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