Can has Answer/Ask -like progress bar?

[tperry2x]

Anyway, getting back to the original point of this topic...
Link: https://mega.nz/folder/tXEi1JzK#YIdb511w5yuinee6KPULUw

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This is a stack you could choose to include as a substack in any project.

If you drag out the corners of the window, you can see what it uses to create the bars, and there's a few test buttons and suchlike...

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However, you can also invoke the progress bar setup as a function:

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Try running this in a message box, with the stack open:

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dispatch progbar(128974848,51914182,"A long wait...") to this stack

The first number is the total (any large number). The second number is the progress so far (a smaller number than the first). The string "A long wait..." is the message you want to be displayed.

Of course, this is non-blocking (unless you go and embed it in a cpu-hungry loop), so you can simply:

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close stack "progressbars" 

to hide the dialog (if you'd made it modal or something).

I should also mention, the colours aren't hard-coded or anything. So you can change the colours of the bars as you see fit, with the inspector. This way, it can fit into whatever project / implementation / os scheme you have in mind.
(Or you could colour them via script to match the platform the script is being run on).

[OpenXTalkPaul]

Thanks for working on this, I did a version I'll have to post eventually.
So like Ask/Answer has options such as 'Answer Warning ...' my thinking was that 'Notify' stack would have options like 'Notify progressBar, ...' and 'Notify Spinner, ...' where param1 of 'the params' would indicate what type of activity indicator to use, so far the options are 'complete' to finish/close the window, 'progress' with a percentage param for horizontal progressbar, or 'busy' for the ambiguous spinner animation, and then you can mix/match them like so:

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Notify busy,"About to do the thing!"
repeat with x = 1 to 100
   Notify progress,"Doing the thing:" & x & "%",x
end repeat
Notify busy,"Almost done..."
--- do some cleanup stuff ---
Notify complete, "All Done!"