progressindication.swf in the FM10 installation directory

[Roman Banks]

Hi Richard,
 
Thank you for your response! I think you are right. :-)
 
In any case, when Framemaker becomes irresponsive while performing something, I would like to know if it crashed miserably or just became temporarily irresponsive. There is no way to discover that rather than sit and wait. Therefore, I think that in such cases, after a certain timeout, FM must issue a message describing the status of the action being performed or, alternatively, show a progress bar.
 
So, after I came across the progressindication.swf file, I wondered if it is used by Framemaker at all. I've never seen contexts in which this progress bar is used by Framemaker.
 
Kind regards,
Roman

From: "Combs, Richard" <richard.combs at Polycom.com>
To: Roman Banks <banks_roman at yahoo.com>; "framers at lists.frameusers.com" <framers at lists.frameusers.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 6:39 PM
Subject: RE: progressindication.swf in the FM10 installation directory

Roman Banks wrote:

> Sometimes, when Framemaker performs a lengthy and time-consuming
> operation, I get the "Framemaker (Not Responding)" message, even if it
> does not get stuck completely. I think, using a progress bar instead of
> this stupid and misleading message would be more appropriate. When
> seeing this message, an inexperienced user may just try to exit
> Framemaker instead of waiting a bit longer.

I'm guessing that you're running Windows 7 and that "Framemaker (Not Responding)" appears in the title bar of the FM window. That's not a message from FM, it's from the OS. 

IMO, Win 7 is far too quick to pull the trigger on the "Not Responding" message when an application takes more than a (very) few seconds to respond to input. I've seen that message for several other apps, including Outlook, Word, and Acrobat. 

Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
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