Type of window for progress bars?

You can use palette and window, but not dialog. Dialogs grab all attention: so long as one is displayed you can't do anything else.

Peter

The palette container seems to work fine.

Here is the ProgressBar object that I use in most of my scripts:

var ProgressBar = function(/*str*/title)
{
     var w = new Window('palette', ' '+title, {x:0, y:0, width:340, height:60}),
          pb = w.add('progressbar', {x:20, y:12, width:300, height:12}, 0, 100),
          st = w.add('statictext', {x:10, y:36, width:320, height:20}, '');
     st.justify = 'center';
     w.center();
     this.reset = function(msg,maxValue)
          {
          st.text = msg;
          pb.value = 0;
          pb.maxvalue = maxValue||0;
          pb.visible = !!maxValue;
          w.show();
          };
     this.hit = function() {++pb.value;};
     this.hide = function() {w.hide();};
     this.close = function() {w.close();};
};


//------------------------------------------------
//      SAMPLE CODE
//------------------------------------------------

function main()
{
     var pBar = new ProgressBar("Script Title");
     var i;
     
     // Routine #1
     pBar.reset("Processing Routine #1...", 100);
     for( i=0 ; i < 100; ++i, pBar.hit() )
          {
          $.sleep(10);
          }
     
     // Routine #2
     var i;
     pBar.reset("Processing Routine #2...", 10);
     for( i=0 ; i < 10; ++i, pBar.hit() )
          {
          $.sleep(300);
          }
     
     pBar.close();
}
main();

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Marc

The progressbar which is not updating untill finishing the whole task may possibly be an issue of InDesign CS4.

I had the same problem when trying to run the script in InDesign CS4 (Mac). Just try the same thing in CS5, for me it worked...

Worked for me.

Thanks a lot for this simple, generic and super useful script.

Hello,

I've found solution.

It appear that every InDesign remember any previous state of this setting: app.scriptPreferences.enableRedraw

I have two computers – on one progressbar works properly, on second doesn't.

So if your Progress bar doesn't work properly, try add following line at the begining of script (into main() function):

app.scriptPreferences.enableRedraw = true;

New version:

function ProgressBar(/*str*/title, /*uint*/width, /*uint*/height)
// =========================================================
// Version 2.beta | 12-Nov-2014
// -- Keep the message centered --see below the new method this.msg()
// -- Supports message patterns e.g: "Step %1/100" --see the sample code
// -- Other minor improvements
// =========================================================
{
    (60<=(width||0))||(width=340);
    (40<=(height||0))||(height=60);

    var H = 22,
        Y = (3*height-2*H)>>2,
        W = new Window('palette', ' '+title, [0,0,width,height]),
        P = W.add('progressbar', { x:20, y:height>>2, width:width-40, height:12 }, 0,100),
        T = W.add('statictext' , { x:0, y:Y, width:width, height:H }),
        __ = function(a,b){ return localize.apply(null,a.concat(b)) };

    this.pattern = ['%1'];

    W.center();

    // ---
    // API
    // ---
   
    this.msg = function(/*str*/s)
    // ---------------------------------
    {
        s && (T.location = [(width-T.graphics.measureString(s)[0])>>1, Y]);
        T.text = s;
    };

    this.show = this.reset = function(/*str*/s, /*uint*/v)
    // ---------------------------------
    {
        if( s && s != localize(s,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9) )
            {
            this.pattern[0] = s;
            s = __(this.pattern, [].slice.call(arguments,2));
            }
        else
            {
            this.pattern[0] = '%1';
            }
       
        P.value = 0;
        P.maxvalue = v||0;
        P.visible = !!v;

        this.msg(s);
        W.show();
    };

    this.hit = function(x)
    // ---------------------------------
    {
        ++P.value;
        ('undefined' != typeof x) && this.msg(__(this.pattern, [].slice.call(arguments,0)));
    };

    this.hide = function()
    // ---------------------------------
    {
        W.hide();
    };
   
    this.close = function()
    // ---------------------------------
    {
        W.close();
    };
};


//------------------------------------------------
//      SAMPLE CODE
//------------------------------------------------

(function()
{
    var PB = new ProgressBar("Script Title",350,100),
        i, vMax;

    // Quick process
    // ---
    PB.show("Processing quickly... %1 / 500", vMax=500, i=0);
    for( ; i < vMax ; $.sleep(8), PB.hit(++i) );
   
    PB.reset("Wait for 800 ms...");
    $.sleep(800);

    // Slow process
    // ---
    PB.reset("And now slowly (%1%)  |  Stage %2", vMax=13, 0, i=0);
    for( ; i < vMax ; ++i, PB.hit((100*(i/vMax)).toFixed(2), i), $.sleep(400+200*(.5-Math.random())) );

    $.sleep(500);
    PB.msg("The job is done.");
    $.sleep(1500);

    // Quit
    // ---
    PB.close();
})();

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Marc