Independent Progress Bar

[Mike Bonner]

If its apple only, can you use "send to program" to control your twirly
stack? No mac here anymore so can't try it.

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 4:57 PM, stephen barncard <
stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com> wrote:

> one way to achieve multi-tasking.   Actually brilliant. What is the size of
> that little sucker?
>
> On 14 December 2011 15:49, Bob Sneidar <bobs at twft.com> wrote:
>
> > Well some may have missed it, but I was saying that I created a
> > standalone, and all it does is display a window that has no title bar,
> with
> > a message and a spinning gif. I use it when I am opening an app that uses
> > SQL to give the user something to look at while the connection is made
> and
> > everything is set up. Someone who is adventurous and good at setting up
> > communication between two Livecode apps could easily find a way to change
> > the message and set the location you want it to show up in, among other
> > things, making it a cheap but effective little "Wait..." dialog.
> >
> > I launch it by putting together a simple Applescript command in my
> startup
> > stack that tells the :Spinner" application to activate. When I am done
> with
> > it, I tell the app to quit. It's actually kind of nice, except that of
> > course, it's an app, and they can be quit or hidden. Since the typical
> time
> > I need to wait is only a few seconds, it's not a problem.
> >
> > If I was any good at making a Livecode external, I would try, but alas, I
> > know nothing of C.
> >
> > Bob
> >
> >
> > On Dec 14, 2011, at 2:59 PM, stephen barncard wrote:
> >
> > > I would use them if they worked.   These would be awesome little
> > indicator
> > > packages, if we don't overuse it like blinking in old web sites.
> Browsers
> > > seem to do this with little cpu load.
> > > Remember Imageready?
> > >
> > > On 14 December 2011 13:05, Bob Sneidar <bobs at twft.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Voted for it. Not too many people seem to be using this system though.
> > >>
> > >> Bob
> > >>
> > >> On Dec 14, 2011, at 12:48 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> FWIW:
> > >>>
> > >>> Asynchronous GIF playback
> > >>> <http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7600>
> > >>>
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> > >
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