The solution I came up with was a standalone that I could send messages to. I called it Spinner because I wanted to show a dialog that displayed a message and a spinning graphic while Livecode was processing handlers. I could send commands to show itself, hide itself, display a message and activate the graphic. A progress bar could have been added but I stopped using it for some reason. On MacOS I used Applescript to send commands, but you could use sockets just as easily.
I think there are widgets now that will do what you want. My understanding is that widgets can be designed to run independent of Livecode’s single processing thread. Bob S > On Jul 25, 2024, at 11:42 PM, jbv via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Hi list, > > I have a main loop that does a lot of things, like resizing images, > precessing imagedata, creating fields and groups, etc. > On top of the loop I have added "lock screen" to speed things up, and > also because I don't want users to see what is going on, only the final > layout when the loop is over. > However, while the loop is running, I would like to have a progress bar > and a message such as "step 1/20" etc. > > How can I handle that ? I took a look at callbacks, but unless I missed > something, it seems limited to players. > > Thank you in advance. > jbv > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
