August 2018
Beginner
414 pages
3h 16m
English
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Chapter #56. Show a "Spinner" if the Task Will Take an Indeterminate Amount of Time
In this case, by indeterminate, I mean that your software isn't sure (or has no way of knowing) how many things it has to do: it just knows that it will know when it is done.
Showing an animated spinner gives a user less information than a progress bar, but it at least tells them that something is happening and their task will be done when the spinner vanishes.
A spinner. Other styles are available
If something goes wrong, then make the spinner stop. Your user doesn't know whether this is a "loop forever" GIF, so they'll just carry on waiting when nothing is actually ...