[ANN] Animated gif for OSX progress

[Joel Guillod]

> You are most welcome, Joel.
>
> And Howard, you are not actually stopping the  animation which  
> continues in
> the background. As in the original posting and  repeated when  
> uploaded to ssBk
> Online, set the repeatCount of the image ID to -1  to start the  
> animation and
> 0 to stop it.


On what platform do you run? I still dont see the animation during  
script execution. Try this on MacOSX 10.4.2:

1.- Put this handler in the script of a card displaying your  
animation image:

on doTheLongProcess pCount
   repeat with i=1 to pCount
     put i
   end repeat
end doTheLongProcess

2.- Ensure that the image is animated, i.e. type in the msg box: "set  
the repeatCount of the image X to -1"

3.- Type the following in the msg box "doTheLongProcess 4000"

4.- Here you notice that the msg box displays an increasing value but  
the image is not animated.

Now, do you catch my former question? Or does your own computer  
display the animation, mine does not...


So to allow for the animation to be displayed during the execution of  
script, I do the following:

1.- Change the above script to:
on doTheLongProcess pCount
   repeat with i=1 to pCount
     put i
     animateImg -- this is the fix to allow for the animation to  
display.
   end repeat
end doTheLongProcess

local llast_animate = 0

on animateImg i
   -- dont do the wait for each iteration of the calling handler  
since this will slow down the execution:
   if millisecs()-llast_animate>100 then
     wait 0 millisecs
     put millisecs() into llast_animate
   end if
end animateImg

2.- Note that calling "wait" allows for the screen to display.
3.- Dont use a "lockscreen" or "set lockscreen to true" in your  
script because this will prevent the redisplay, of course.

That's my proposal. I build a test stack named "Display animation  
process" which you find under username "imed". It will show you time  
wasting depending of the settings (animate or not, screen locked or  
not).

JG