[Qgis-developer] Status indicator when loading a bigger project

[John C. Tull]

Andreas,

Probably best to make it a feature request.

Regards,
John

On Mar 20, 2009, at 7:29 AM, Andreas Neumann wrote:

> Hi QGIS-Developers!
>
> It would be nice if we could have a status indicator when loading a
> qgis-project. Some of my project have 20+ layers and when loading  
> such a
> project, QGIS seems to do nothing for a couple seconds (up to half a
> minute).
>
> Some of my users then think that the program hangs or crashed.
>
> I think it would be great to have some sort of indication of what  
> QGIS is
> doing while loading a project, telling the user which dataset it is
> currently loading, rendering or working on:
>
> Some of the options:
> * Write a messag in the statusbar to indicate which layer qgis is  
> working on
> * a dialogue displaying the progress
> * a progress bar
> * a list of layers to load and a status indicator to tell which  
> layer is
> already loaded and which layers are still pending
>
> Thanks for discussing this issues among you developers,
> Andreas
>
> PS: if you want, I can open a feature request in trac.
>
> -- 
> Andreas Neumann
> http://www.carto.net/neumann/
> http://www.svgopen.org/
>
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