Waiting for 'shell'

[Mike Bonner]

Yeah, I had offered alternative ways other than using shell (open process,
or launch) rather than shell since its blocking. open process can be
used asynchronously so its easy to implement some type of indicator, same
with launch but I was unsure how to tell process completion with that
method.

Shell and the animated gif is still the easiest method if it can be made to
work.

Was just throwing out alternative methods.

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Roger Eller <roger.e.eller at sealedair.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:
>
> > Oh cool. Yep, that could be easily used as an indication that the
> launched
> > process has completed. That or ps would both work on mac or linux.
>
>
> I just looked back at the original post.  If I understand correctly, the
> problem is not seeing when shell completes, but to let the user know there
> is backgrounded activity while shell is still processing, and so they don't
> think the app has locked up.
>
> ˜Roger
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