- Removed the very naughty interrupt swallowing used to detect if the process started correctly
under optimal arguments, replaced it with a busy-wait loop so the thread can still be used to
launch the application multiple times
This little chunk of code has been tweaked and cargo'd forward for years
with no documentation as to what's going on.
What I object to is the blatent disregarding of the width specified in
getdown.txt with something calculated internally. (width - x*2)
GIGO; fix your fucking getdown.txt.
- If we are not granted privileges, reading the metadata breaks, which
is why the fallback was first added.
- Later it was tweaked because getWidth() can sometimes report 0 and
that would cause the fallback width to be negative.
- Allow multiple percentages to be specified for a step. The lowest one that's
higher than the current percentage is used.
- It seems sometimes the UI is shown after some progress is made. Track
the percentage we're at when the UI is shown and reset that to be the new
0, scaling subsequent progress to fill the remainder.
I added this convinced I needed it, but now I'm seeing that it's always
at 0 when the UI is shown...
Perhaps I'll revisit that after I do some other stuff...
Ellipses on buttons/menu items typically means "pressing this
will not invoke an action directly because more information/customization
is needed". For example the ubiquitous "Print..." displays a
printing dialog, it doesn't actually start printing.
after the status, incrementing every second.
Even if the status or percentage doesn't update for a while, the user
will know that the updater is still "working".
This could cause problems but I believe that any time we display the
time remaining we are also showing a short status string.
Hand-massaged the translations, hopefully everything still makes sense
in each language.
but it wasn't doing the right thing. Fixed it.
I honestly have no idea how this was working. Maybe it just wasn't.
Maybe we never noticed before because with the per-step progress
bars we weren't seeing it exceed 100 percent.
And then use that instead of the UnifiedProgressObserver I wrote,
before I saw MetaProgressObserver.