Posted by aaron on March 18, 2009 at 12:06pm
I have a request for a UI element if someone wants to make or find a GPL compliant icon set for the Media module. Here's the issue.
We need to have a spinner "progress" indicator (which should just be something that spins, as it's not true percentage complete, just a spinner telling us the upload is in progress). Then a checkbox or something to display when the upload is complete. Something similar to how YouTube does it. (I can attach screenshots of that if someone needs.)
Thanks,
Aaron
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This is what I use for spinners.
Its a free spinner generator.
http://www.ajaxload.info/
Looks good
Great find, daggerhart! Thanks!
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IRC Discussion
The discussion on IRC at #drupal-dojo has gone something like this so far (just to keep folks in the loop).
q. Why don't we just use the default Drupal throbber?
a. Because this should be more prominent, as it's more than 'hold on a second while I load this up'. For instance, if we're uploading a 25MB video, which could take some time, we want some indicator that it's not just hung up.
q. How about a progressbar (such as jQuery UI offers)?
a. Because (as I understand) jQuery is not able to track an upload's progress. There are ways to do this: a PHP library (which might not be installed on everyone's server), and Flash. These would, in the future, be offered as plugins to Media (and might be installed in most cases), but would not be suitable for the core module because of the requirements.
By the way, you can see the IRC #drupal-dojo logs at http://www.disobey.com/bot/log/drupal-dojo (as well as many other Drupal IRC channels from http://www.disobey.com/bot/log).
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Some preliminary candidates
http://drupal.org/node/405914#comment-1372922
Coming along!
Looks great, Manuel!!!
We'll also need Completed checkboxes and 'File Upload Failed' X marks or something as well, if you or anyone else wants to grab those as well.
I'll get those integrated into the module by the weekend.
Thanks,
Aaron
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I'll probably link the page
I'll probably link the page to build your own spinner on the admin page as well; definitely would be a useful resource for admins/developers in the future for easily customizing the file browser.
Aaron Winborn
Drupal Multimedia (book, in October!)
AaronWinborn.com (blog)
Advomatic (work)
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