The progress and status bar

VDAT uses the progress bar and the status bar in the lower part of the main VDAT window to communicate the status of the command execution.

A command in VDAT is split up into a series of jobs, each representing a single subprocess, e.g. a Cure command running on a single IFU. When a command is running, the progress bar, as expected, shows the fraction of finished jobs for the command at hand. On Linux and Windows systems it also shows the number of finished jobs, the total number of jobs and the percentage that are finished. The status bar, below it, shows the expanded command of the most recently completed job, truncated if the corresponding string is too long.

The image below shows an example of it. Note that the aspect of the bar might change depending on the operating system and the desktop environment, as described here.

When a command finishes running, the progress bar gets reset and the status bar flashes the message Done for a few seconds, as shown below.