[maemo-developers] How to display progress while fetching contacts?

[From: Joseph Charpak]

On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:16:01 -0400
David Talmage <talmage at acm.org> wrote:

> I'm looking for a platform-independent way to display the progress of
> a QContactFetchRequest.  Can any of you suggest a solution? I've
> found a couple of partial solutions but nothing completely
> satisfactory.  
> 
> QProgressBar would be perfect if I knew how many contacts to expect.
> I don't know that.  I only know when the QContactFetchRequest begins,
> when some results arrive, and when it ends.
> 
> QMaemo5InformationBox::information() with a timeout value of 
> QMaemo5InformationBox::NoTimeout is informative but the user can (or
> must?) dismiss it by tapping on the screen.  I don't want that.  In
> addition, with a name like QMaemo5InformationBox, I don't expect that
> I will be able to use it on Symbian devices or whatever else I port
> my application to.
> 
> I'm going to look into QStatusBar. 
> 
The technical term you're looking for is a "throbber". Do a google
search for qt and throbber. 

This url sounded on topic:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3301866/using-pyqt-and-qt4-is-this-the-proper-way-to-get-a-throbber-in-a-qtabwidget-tab