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1. Re: Avoid White Screen and (Not Responding) Message?
frameexpert Aug 8, 2012 9:56 AM (in response to Jason L-S)Hi Jason,
This is more of a limitation of FrameMaker's implementation of the "OWL" interface. The Not Responding title bar and white screen appear not just with scripts and FDK clients, but also with other long FrameMaker operations, like updating large books, etc. In fact, in Kapil Verma's FrameMaker 11 webinar yesterday, the same thing happened when he was creating a book from a ditamap.
One way you can minimize the effect of this is to use a progress bar with your script, so people will know the progress of the script in spite of the white screen, etc.
Rick Quatro
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2. Re: Avoid White Screen and (Not Responding) Message?
Jason L-S Aug 8, 2012 10:01 AM (in response to frameexpert)Thanks Rick. Can you point me to some examples of how I might implement a progress bar?
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3. Re: Avoid White Screen and (Not Responding) Message?
frameexpert Aug 9, 2012 6:18 AM (in response to Jason L-S)I don't have any ExtendScript examples, but you should check the User-Interface chapter of the JavaScript Tools Guide (available in the ExtendScript Toolkit's Help menu). There may be an example or two in there.
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4. Re: Avoid White Screen and (Not Responding) Message?
Jason L-S Aug 9, 2012 6:33 AM (in response to frameexpert)Rick,
I did. I implemented a progress bar. It also goes white during long processes.
Oh well. I guess I'll just do the best I can given this limitation.
Thanks for your help!
Jason

