My first choice would be for something bigger than the flying dots. Then
let them make trails so I can locate them - the trails will actually do
better at showing the progress so you can pick it up and follow it. Then I
will taking speed up and slowing down the whole process and make it more
complicated later with boxes of slowness and whatever.

But usability studies are really important and revisit the design with that
input. I don't think we can guess what works best without trying it out.

On 8/21/07, Paul F. Sullivan <Paul@sullutions.com> wrote:
>
> Torben et al.,
>
> This would be a super tool and Mike's speed control and persistence
> and Stephen's expansion would make it even better. Gavin and Jim
> might have the start of the simple way to implement it. Albert's
> concern for the color blind would also be important. John's related
> tree debugging aids would also be great.
>
> But I was wondering if it might be simpler to implement a slightly
> more restricted tool that might solve most of the needs of all these
> people, needs highlighted by Bruce's response. Consider your original
> description but in the reversed order: a new "Execution Highlight
> Point" that can turn highlighting OFF or ON. It might be easier to
> implement the tool if it were allowed to require that execution
> highlighting be turned on already, to avoid the problem Jim
> highlighted. In that environment, it could turn off highlighting of a
> branch of code and then turn it back on later. That would address
> Bruce's need to skip the uninteresting parallel while loops. It might
> help Mike by allowing him to concentrate all his processing bandwidth
> on narrower areas of interest, the complement to slowing down the
> whole world.
>
> I'm not sure if it would be easier to implement (Stephen?) but, if it
> were, would it answer the bulk of the need?
>
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> Paul F. Sullivan
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