Remove the progress bar from the status line, and, instead, for any

potentially long-running operation that has a progress indicator, pop up
a modal dialog box with

	an indication of what is being done;

	a progress bar;

	a "Cancel" button to stop the operation.

This:

	leaves more room on the status line for a filter expression;

	provides a mechanism to allow the user to cancel long-running
	operations (although the way we do so may not back out of them
	as nicely as the user might like, if it's not obvious what the
	"right" way is or if the "right" way is difficult to implement
	or involves doing as much work as letting the operation
	continue);

	means that, because the dialog box is modal, we don't have to
	worry about the user performing arbitrary UI operations out from
	under the operation and changing arbitrary bits of state being
	used by that operation.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=2103

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/file.h b/file.h
index db477fb323..b91cfbba68 100644
--- a/file.h
+++ b/file.h
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /* file.h
  * Definitions for file structures and routines
  *
- * $Id: file.h,v 1.69 2000/06/27 07:13:14 guy Exp $
+ * $Id: file.h,v 1.70 2000/07/03 08:35:41 guy Exp $
  *
  * Ethereal - Network traffic analyzer
  * By Gerald Combs <gerald@zing.org>
@@ -92,7 +92,6 @@ typedef struct _capture_file {
   guint32      esec;      /* Elapsed seconds */
   guint32      eusec;     /* Elapsed microseconds */
   guint32      snap;      /* Captured packet length */
-  gboolean     update_progbar; /* TRUE if we should update the progress bar */
   long         progbar_quantum; /* Number of bytes read per progress bar update */
   long         progbar_nextstep; /* Next point at which to update progress bar */
   gchar       *iface;     /* Interface */