Since rendering can take quite some time, it would be nice if the a progress bar could be implemented when rendering is done. Maybe in place of the stop button, with making the stop-button appear on mouse-over of the progress bar, or showing an (x) symbol on the right side of the bar?
fbruetting
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Not sure if a real progressbar is feasible, depends on whether I can get a meaningful progress from the file conversion. But the button already changes to a "Rendering…" label while saving. Adding an animated spinner icon to this would probably improve it.
phw
on 12 Jan 2017
Showing status is fine, but showing progress would be very nice for longer screencasts!
fbruetting
on 12 Jan 2017
I had a quick look into this. Currently I am calling ImageMagick convert as a command. It has a `-monitor' option, but at least for GIF conversion it is not helpful for building a progress report, see https://gist.github.com/phw/500244f21235ad9239833d18d4b72007
It looks like it would be possible by using ImageMagick via its C API, see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31666616/monitor-imagemagick-convert-progress-with-python
That's something I wanted to do anyway eventually, but I won't be able to look into this any time soon.
phw
on 23 Feb 2017
If somebody wants to work on this feel free to give it a go.
phw
on 23 Feb 2017
Just as an update: With the use of gifski (#212) there is a nice progress bar output on console we could use to gather progress details.
phw
on 16 Nov 2017
There is now at least a spinner during the processing, this will be in the 1.2.0 release. I will see if it is feasible to get progress information in a later release.
phw
on 21 Nov 2017
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There is now at least a spinner during the processing, this will be in the 1.2.0 release. I will see if it is feasible to get progress information in a later release.