RE: Non-modal information window showing progress?
RE: Non-modal information window showing progress?
- Subject: RE: Non-modal information window showing progress?
- From: Jed Verity <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 14:38:47 -0700
Yes, Dialog Director does this quite well.
On 4/24/01 1:09 PM, you wanted me to know this:
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On Monday, April 23, 2001, at 04:34 PM, Harald E Brandt wrote:
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> I want to display a progress window that says which file is currently
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> being processed. How can I do that??
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> Not a word about such a thing is mentioned in AppleScript Language
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> Guide or in Scripting_Additions.pdf!?
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> It should be like a progress bar, but with some text or numbers that
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> are updated as the script proceeds.
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> With hope for help,
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Several options:
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1) Use a display dialog with a "giving up after 1" to show what file is
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being worked on. If each file takes only a few seconds to process this
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should be dynamic enough. Of course, it means it will takes x seconds
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longer to execute (where x is the number of files to process), unless
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you can get by this with an "ignoring application responses" clause.
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This is the cheapest and easiest to implement.
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2) Have your script "say" what file it is working on. This could get
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very annoying, and could be more time consuming.
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3) Get FaceSpan and display progress in a floating windoid. Absolutely
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doable with FaceSpan, but is it worth the investment? Your call.
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4) Anyone know if Dialog Director can do this?
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Jeff Baumann
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www.linkedresources.com
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