Provide more comprehensive Progress Indicator

[David Schwartz]

• Pause button label cycles b/w 'Pause' and 'Resume'
  
• Layout is updated to respond to the presence/absence of particular elements (not all processes can be reversed or would have task-relevant info, for example)

[Adam Peller]

I'm not sure what is being requested here... a dialog-based compound widget with a progressbar? This seems to conflict with Dijit design goals as the basis for a widget. As long as it is straightforward to construct this with the current APIs, either by wiring widgets together or adding HTML, I think this is a wontfix.

[David Schwartz]

It was suggested that I create this ticket for Dojox, not Dijit, so that, if someone wanted to, they could create this useful, compound widget.

[Adam Peller]

We usually don't hold tickets like this open unless it is either part of our development plan or there is a patch in place, otherwise it would be difficult to manage all the tickets. In this example, though, I'd like to think that it's trivial enough (and specialized enough) that it doesn't warrant its own module. It could be published as an example somewhere.

It's also possible that something like this exists in psych desktop.

[Adam Peller]

Marking future, but we can pull this in if someone has the cycles to work on it. I still worry that this task is too application- and server-specific, and might make a better demo or example page than a reusable widget.

[David Schwartz]

Not sure I understand 'too application- and server-specific' or what it 'might make a better demo or example page than a reusable widget'. Can you elaborate?

[Adam Peller]

it's difficult to write a progress widget without defining some sort of transport, endpoint, schema, etc. to talk to in order to get the progress status. Without that, we have very simple client code to render a progress bar based on a simple API called update() which basically takes a new percentage. How to wire wire the widget up to a backend is left to the user (perhaps a 'working' client/server example might make an excellent demo in our widget gallery, however) Dojo generally tries to be server agnostic.