Re: Lack of activity indicator over slow connections (pgadmin4)

From: Surinder Kumar <surinder(dot)kumar(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, pgadmin-hackers <pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Ashesh Vashi <ashesh(dot)vashi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Murtuza Zabuawala <murtuza(dot)zabuawala(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Lack of activity indicator over slow connections (pgadmin4)
Date: 2016-09-23 08:49:39
Message-ID: CAM5-9D83rt3+yCyj3d_99GPBFtQX7WpBUb4eo7EXBzVBujER1w@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 7:32 AM, Surinder Kumar
> <surinder(dot)kumar(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 8:40 PM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Surinder Kumar
> >> <surinder(dot)kumar(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> >> > Hi Dave/Ashesh
> >> >
> >> > The thing we can do is:
> >> > 1) We can display loading message same as other panels if returned
> >> > response
> >> > is taking longer than 2 seconds, otherwise we won't display any
> >> > message(to
> >> > avoid fluctuations).
> >> > Screenshot - demo_message.png
> >>
> >> There's a typo there (laoded)..
> >>
> >> > 2) Display a loading spinner along with panel title while data is
> being
> >> > loaded.
> >> > Screenshot - spinner.png
> >>
> >> I don't see a spinner there at all.
> >
> > sorry its not spinner, its reload spinning icon in place of properties
> icon.
>
> Oh, I see. I like it, but wonder if it would be too subtle.
>
> Can we do both? Show the panel, and spin a loading icon on the tab?
>
​I will try to implement both.​

>
> >>
> >>
> >> What about the other places I mentioned?
> >
> >
> >>
> >> - On dialogue open and OK
> >
> > D
> > isplay loading message
> > in dialog till the data loads and on OK we can set mouse pointer to
> > 'progress' till the data is not processed.
>
> Yes, they are essentially panels too, so we can do the same as for
> Properties and Statistics etc.
>
> > - On Wizard steps
> > D
> > isplay loading message
> > also in wizard pages till it doesn't loads data.
>
> Yes.
>
> >
> > - Possibly in the debugger, when stepping?
> >
> > In case of debugger's step into, step out & resume, we can set mouse
> pointer
> > to 'progress'
>
> OK.
>
> Can you work up a patch ASAP please?
>
​Ok.​

>
> Thanks!
>
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