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Re: Display Status Window


  • Subject: Re: Display Status Window
  • From: Darwin Zins <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 15:18:08 -0600

I guess using the progress bar would be really cool.

When you save as application does it include the dialog or do you have to include it separately?

When distributed does it require the user to download any other software? The path to the dialog would depend on where the user actually puts the application and presumably the dialog file. I can assume the dialog file would be in the same directory as the script, so how do I get the script's current path?

Can I set the maximum within code? What is the contextual menu?

Thanks,

Darwin


On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 08:44 AM, Emmanuel wrote:

Once for all, do the following:
- Scripts > Dialogs > new dialog
- drop "new editable text" from the Dialog components palette to the new dialog
- save new dialog to disk, provide name such as "Progress"

In your script, write the following:
------------------------
set theDlog to open thePath -- thePath is the path to the "Progress" dialog file -- to open the dialog

[repeat]
set contained data of item 1 of theDlog to "2/5" -- set the text of the editable text field
smilepause 0 -- provide resources to refresh the display, call it each time you change the display
[end repeat]

delete theDlog -- disposes the dialog
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With very little effort you can use the progress bar instead: you set its minimum and maximum with the contextual menu, and you change its display by setting in the script its contained data to any integer in the interval (still, call "smilepause" to force the graphical update).

Tell me if I summarized too much.
Emmanuel

At 8:04 AM -0600 19/03/03, Darwin Zins wrote:
I am using Smile.

Darwin

On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 01:52 AM, Emmanuel wrote:

At 2:18 PM -0600 18/03/03, Darwin Zins wrote:
Is there a way in applescript to display a status window, so for example while this script is sync'ing it can say:

Syncing 5 of 20

If you can use Smile, that's straightforward.

Emmanuel
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