General UI Question - Anybody can have a go at this one
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Not a technical question, rather a fairly nebulous question about a UI design. In summary, I have an application that may or may not perform a task every minute. I need to create a visual representation of when this task will be performed over a day/week. Something like a time line where a user can view a single day/week that displays when the task will execute. As an example, the task is configured to execute at 12,34,45,50,56 past the hour in the hours 1,4,8,15,18,20,21,22 The problem is that there are 2440 minutes in a day, so creating a visual UI is somewhat complicated. Unless of course the user has a 500 inch wide screen monitor :omg: Just incase anybody has heard of it, I am trying to create this for Crontab jobs.
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Not a technical question, rather a fairly nebulous question about a UI design. In summary, I have an application that may or may not perform a task every minute. I need to create a visual representation of when this task will be performed over a day/week. Something like a time line where a user can view a single day/week that displays when the task will execute. As an example, the task is configured to execute at 12,34,45,50,56 past the hour in the hours 1,4,8,15,18,20,21,22 The problem is that there are 2440 minutes in a day, so creating a visual UI is somewhat complicated. Unless of course the user has a 500 inch wide screen monitor :omg: Just incase anybody has heard of it, I am trying to create this for Crontab jobs.
Why don't you 'steal' MS Outlook's calendar view... I think it's a neat way to present events over time.
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Not a technical question, rather a fairly nebulous question about a UI design. In summary, I have an application that may or may not perform a task every minute. I need to create a visual representation of when this task will be performed over a day/week. Something like a time line where a user can view a single day/week that displays when the task will execute. As an example, the task is configured to execute at 12,34,45,50,56 past the hour in the hours 1,4,8,15,18,20,21,22 The problem is that there are 2440 minutes in a day, so creating a visual UI is somewhat complicated. Unless of course the user has a 500 inch wide screen monitor :omg: Just incase anybody has heard of it, I am trying to create this for Crontab jobs.
MrEyes wrote:
The problem is that there are 2440 minutes in a day
Wow, you are either cursed or lucky with an extra 1000 minutes a day ;P
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MrEyes wrote:
The problem is that there are 2440 minutes in a day
Wow, you are either cursed or lucky with an extra 1000 minutes a day ;P
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IronScheme - 1.0 beta 1 - out now!
((lambda (x) `((lambda (x) ,x) ',x)) '`((lambda (x) ,x) ',x))leppie wrote:
Wow, you are either cursed or lucky with an extra 1000 minutes a day
I don't know. There have been days when I've felt like there's an extra 1000 minutes in there.
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MrEyes wrote:
The problem is that there are 2440 minutes in a day
Wow, you are either cursed or lucky with an extra 1000 minutes a day ;P
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IronScheme - 1.0 beta 1 - out now!
((lambda (x) `((lambda (x) ,x) ',x)) '`((lambda (x) ,x) ',x))Vogon Guard Well, the hours are good. Ford They'd have to be. Vogon guard But now you mention it, I suppose most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.
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Not a technical question, rather a fairly nebulous question about a UI design. In summary, I have an application that may or may not perform a task every minute. I need to create a visual representation of when this task will be performed over a day/week. Something like a time line where a user can view a single day/week that displays when the task will execute. As an example, the task is configured to execute at 12,34,45,50,56 past the hour in the hours 1,4,8,15,18,20,21,22 The problem is that there are 2440 minutes in a day, so creating a visual UI is somewhat complicated. Unless of course the user has a 500 inch wide screen monitor :omg: Just incase anybody has heard of it, I am trying to create this for Crontab jobs.
There are several third party calendar controls available (free and licensed). I would pick up a nice looking and use that. Some of those have even Gantt-like view just in case that you want to visualize the length and other information for the tasks some point in future. I wouldn't believe that it has any effect on visualization if the task scheduling system is crontab. Only when getting the data into the calendar (or similar), you must implement your own 'parser' for crontab syntax (how to separate minutes, hours, days, what * means etc).
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MrEyes wrote:
The problem is that there are 2440 minutes in a day
Wow, you are either cursed or lucky with an extra 1000 minutes a day ;P
xacc.ide - now with TabsToSpaces support
IronScheme - 1.0 beta 1 - out now!
((lambda (x) `((lambda (x) ,x) ',x)) '`((lambda (x) ,x) ',x))