Attached is an implementation of a progress bar using FM7's repeating field calcs. This can be used if you have a slow maintenance script or opener script, and you want to give impatient users something to look at.

ProgressBar.fp7.zip

Excellent !

You know I love these flavours.

I was playing with something similar, and a way to simulate the "back and forth" effect of the OSX progress bar. Will get in touch if I can find a way too.

Again, excellent work and rendering.

On Windows, it flashes insanely. I nearly had a seizure. Is there any way to tame it down a little?

Sorry Queue,

It must be something with the way it refreshes in Windows. Try this version which only refreshes if the layout has to be switched (This could still have problems if called in a script that goes to other layouts.)

Unfortunately, I don't have Windows available to iron out this bug further.

ProgressBar2.fp7.zip

Actually, you don't really need to refresh it I would think if you had used a full filled repeated field rather than 2 separate ones.

I'm working on the back and forth effect already

That one's a little better. It still has a white block that flashes across the screen at times, similar to the way you would see a computer monitor behaving on television.

Here's one that uses a floating Progress window. Although there's no refresh required, it is more work to manage the windows.

Let me know how the flash is.

ProgressBar3.fp7.zip

It never flashed for me on Mac OSX, but I think you knew that.

Here's a simple adaptation of yours with the back and forth effect.

OSXProgressBar.zip

Ooh, that one is much cleaner! It flashes when a new window is created, but not half as badly as the others.

Ugo, I'm not sure what yours is even supposed to do.

Hmm...

There's a back and forth effect. Part of the Bar Progress on the right side, but another part, at the same time, slides backwards, so that you get this impression.

But may be you don't see it on Windows. Or is it just me ?

It just use a Pause with no refresh as I generally don't use the xx% thing. Seems to me a bit unuseful as this is just the goal of a progress bar to visually reflect the progression.

Small assistance for your Progressbar Tip.

One field both sys platform - not tested really on PC platform.

Happy Filemakering

INO

_ProgressBar3_Ino.zip