Re: Non-modal information window showing progress?
Re: Non-modal information window showing progress?
- Subject: Re: Non-modal information window showing progress?
- From: Jeffrey W Baumann <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 15:09:09 -0500
On Monday, April 23, 2001, at 04:34 PM, Harald E Brandt wrote:
I want to display a progress window that says which file is currently
being processed. How can I do that??
Not a word about such a thing is mentioned in AppleScript Language
Guide or in Scripting_Additions.pdf!?
It should be like a progress bar, but with some text or numbers that
are updated as the script proceeds.
With hope for help,
Several options:
1) Use a display dialog with a "giving up after 1" to show what file is
being worked on. If each file takes only a few seconds to process this
should be dynamic enough. Of course, it means it will takes x seconds
longer to execute (where x is the number of files to process), unless
you can get by this with an "ignoring application responses" clause.
This is the cheapest and easiest to implement.
2) Have your script "say" what file it is working on. This could get
very annoying, and could be more time consuming.
3) Get FaceSpan and display progress in a floating windoid. Absolutely
doable with FaceSpan, but is it worth the investment? Your call.
4) Anyone know if Dialog Director can do this?
Jeff Baumann
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