Progress Bar

Bob Sneidar bobs at twft.com
Thu Mar 29 18:32:18 EDT 2012


Ditto to what they said. For an explanation, the progress bar will only update during an idle time. While scripts are running, there is no idle time. The wait with messages gives the engine the idle time it needs to do it's thing. 

Bob


On Mar 29, 2012, at 3:03 PM, Pete wrote:

> I'm using a progress bar for the first time.  Checked it all out stepping
> through things in debug and all worked fine.  However, when I run it
> normally (meaning no debug), the blue progress bar never moves beyond it's
> startpos.
> 
> I'm pretty sure this is because I'm updating it in a tight loop and LC
> doesn't get a chance to update the screen but I'm uncertain how to solve
> that without adding to the overall execution time of the loop.
> 
> Enlightenment much appreciated.
> 
> 
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