loading thing

[Carey]

this is a little program i made when i was designing a program that had a long calculation in it. it is a program that displays a custom message with a 3 dot animation. use it so that the user of your program doesn't think that the program has frozen or crashed when it is doing a long calculation. please post any suggestions and/or improvements.

[Tony]

could we see some benchmarks on the impact to performance?

An alternative to consider would be to place compleation triggers inside the long calculation itself, so that you get progress feedback when the progress is actually made, not just an animating loop.