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		majewsky on March 22, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Text Editor Performance Comparison And then you want a popup with a progress bar. Where's your text rendering engine now?

flukus on March 23, 2017 | [–]

You launch a popup with whatever GUI toolkit you're using, just like every other application. We had popups with progress bars before computers had GUI's at all.

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