Feature request for Fillet...

 From:  Michael Gibson
5803.2 In reply to 5803.1 
Hi Tom,

> - Is it possible to tell the user WHY it failed?
> - Is there a way to show a progress-meter? Sometimes a Fillet takes half an hour and it would be great to know that it will take long and where it is at.

These 2 are unfortunately quite difficult to do well.



> - Would it be possible to have Fillet indicate failed attempts somehow?
> - Would it be also possible to somehow indicate if it worked? (Green Checkmark/Red Checkmark in the dialog?)

These ones are more feasible, and I guess that one green/red indicator that showed whether the last update was successful would do both of these.

But do you have any suggestion of where the checkmark could be displayed so that it didn't look weird? It could potentially be a bit strange to just have some big checkmark showing somewhere without any indication of what it would be for, and the other side having a entire description with it is also difficult because the way MoI's UI is structured there is not very much space in the dialog area to show all the controls for every command so it's usually a priority to have the command UI fairly compact.


What about if it did not show anything until there was a failure, and then it started showing a red X / green check somewhere only after there had been one failure?

- Michael