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Full Specifications. What's new in version 1. Date Added August 18, Version 1. Operating Systems. Additional Requirements. NET Framework 2. Total Downloads 1, Downloads Last Week 2. Report Software. Related Software. Computer Talker Free. Make your computer talk for you. Put the animation above the progress bar labels, if you have any. If there is a Cancel or Stop button to the right of the progress bar, include the button when determining the center.
Play a sound effect at the completion of an operation only if it is very lengthy longer than two minutes , infrequent, and important. If the user is likely to walk away from an important operation while it is processing, a sound effect restores the user's attention. Using a sound effect upon completion in other circumstances would be a distracting annoyance. Don't steal input focus to show a progress update or completion. Users often switch to other programs while waiting and don't want to be interrupted.
Background tasks must stay in the background. Don't worry about technical support. Because the feedback provided by progress bars isn't necessarily accurate and is fleeting, progress bars aren't a good mechanism for providing information for technical support.
Consequently, if the operation can fail as with a setup program , don't provide additional progress information that is only useful to technical support. Instead, provide an alternative mechanism such as a log file to record technical support information.
Don't put the percentage complete or any other text on a progress bar. Such text isn't accessible and isn't compatible with using themes. Don't combine a progress bar with a busy pointer.
Use one or the other, but not both at the same time. Don't use vertical progress bars. Horizontal progress bars have a more natural mapping and better flow. Clearly indicate the progress phase. The progress bar must be able to indicate if the operation is in the beginning, middle, or end of an operation.
For example, progress bars that immediately shoot to 99 percent completion, then stay there for a long time are particularly uninformative and annoying. In these cases, the progress bar should be set initially to at most 33 percent to indicate that the operation is still in the beginning phase. Clearly indicate completion. Don't let a progress bar go to percent unless the operation has completed. Provide a time remaining estimate if you can do so accurately. Time remaining estimates that are accurate are useful, but estimates that are way off the mark or bounce around significantly aren't helpful.
You may need to perform some processing before you can give accurate estimates. If so, don't display potentially inaccurate estimates during this initial period. Don't restart progress. A progress bar loses its value if it restarts perhaps because a step in the operation completes because users have no way of knowing when the operation will complete.
Instead, have all the steps in the operation share a portion of the progress and have the progress bar go to completion once. In this example, the operation moved to the step of copying files and reset the progress bar for that step. Now users have no idea how much progress has been made or how much time is left. Don't back up progress. As with a restart, a progress bar loses its value if it backs up. Always increase progress monotonically. However, you can have a time remaining estimate that increases as well as decreases because the rate of progress may vary.
Use indeterminate progress bars only for operations whose overall progress cannot be determined. Use indeterminate progress bars for operations that require an unbounded amount of time or that access an unknown number of objects. Use timeouts to give bounds to time-based operations. Convert to a determinate progress bar once the overall progress can be determined.
For example, if it takes significantly longer than two seconds to determine the number of objects, you can use an indeterminate progress bar while the objects are counted, and then convert to a determinate progress bar.
Don't combine indeterminate progress bars with percent complete or time remaining estimates. If you can provide this information, use a determinate progress bar instead. Don't combine indeterminate progress bars with animations. An indeterminate progress bar is effectively a generic animation, so you should use one or the other but never both. If users can do something productive while the operation is in progress, provide modeless feedback. You might need to disable a subset of functionality that requires the operation to complete.
If the window has an address bar, display the modeless progress in the address bar. Otherwise, if the window has a status bar, display the modeless progress in the status bar. Put any corresponding text to its left in the status bar. Place modal progress bars on progress pages or progress dialog boxes. Provide a command button to halt the operation if it takes more than a few seconds to complete, or has the potential never to complete. Label the button Cancel if canceling returns the environment to its previous state leaving no side effects , otherwise label the button Stop to indicate that it leaves the partially completed operation intact.
You can change the button label from Cancel to Stop in the middle of the operation if at some point it isn't possible to return the environment to its previous state. Center the command button vertically with the progress bar instead of aligning their tops.
In this example, halting the copy leaves any copied files, so the command button is labeled Stop. In this example, halting the search leaves no side effect, so the command button should be labeled Cancel. Use the following time formats. Start with the first of the following formats where the largest time unit isn't zero, and then change to the next format once the largest time unit becomes zero.
This compact format shows the most important information first so that it isn't truncated on the taskbar. Make estimates accurate, but don't give false precision. If largest unit is hours, give minutes if meaningful but not seconds.
Keep the estimate up-to-date. Update time remaining estimates at least every 5 seconds. Focus on the time remaining because that is the information users care about most.
Give total elapsed time only when there are scenarios where elapsed time is helpful such as when the task is likely to be repeated. If the time remaining estimate is associated with a progress bar, don't have percent complete text because that information is conveyed by the progress bar itself.
Use a concise label with a static text control to indicate what the operation is doing. Start the label with a verb for example, Copying and end with an ellipsis. This label may change dynamically if the operation has multiple steps or is processing multiple objects. Don't assign a unique access key because the control isn't interactive. If the operation was not directly initiated by the user, you can include an additional label to give the context and apologize for the interruption.
Start this extra label with the phrase, Please wait while. This label should not change during the operation. In this example, the user is being asked to please wait because the user didn't directly initiate the operation. Position the label above the progress bar and align the label with the left edge of the progress bar. Provide details in static text, preceding the data with a label ending with a colon. Specify units seconds, kilobytes, and so on after the details text.
Position the details below the progress bar and align the label with the left edge of the progress bar.
Don't give the percentage completed or remaining because that information is conveyed by the progress bar itself. If the progress bar is displayed in a modal dialog box, the dialog box title should be the name of the program or the name of the operation. Don't use what should be the progress bar label for the dialog box title. In this example, the dialog box title text is a restatement of the progress bar label. The program name should be used instead. If the progress bar is displayed in a modeless dialog box, optimize the title for display on the taskbar by concisely placing the distinguishing information first.
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Note This design guide was created for Windows 7 and has not been updated for newer versions of Windows. Note Guidelines related to layout are presented in a separate article. In this article.
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