However, displaying progress is not what Growl is for. It is for
notifying you that something has finished (or failed). It exists
mostly so that you don't have to watch a progress bar; you don't
have to wait around watching the progress bar to know when the job
is done, because the application will tell you through Growl when it
is done.
Great, that's the answer I was looking for. It's not the tool for the
job.
For your make-and-upload-a-zip-file script, you might consider using
Transmit to upload the file. This would solve your sucky-progress-
bar issue and provide Growl notifications for free, since Transmit
supports that itself.
My script does a lot more then “transmitting”, like sending an email
to the client telling which files are ready to be downloaded, etc.
Trivial stuff, but no single app can do it, that's the beauty of unix.
I guess I could do all my stuff in the script and glue Transmit to it
with AppleScript, but it seems like an expensive progressbar/uploader.
I have a license myself, but for another 5 Macs it seems too much.
On Oct 14, 2010, at 9:12 PM, Peter Hosey wrote:
On Oct 14, 2010, at 16:42:13, Pedro Estarque wrote:
I think there are two separate discussions here.
- Is it in Growl's goal to display a progress bar?
- Is there any use to a progress bar at all?
The first one is not up to me to decide.
The second, in my opinon, is pretty obvious. If the day ever comes
that we achieve a real-time computing experience, then progress
bars will be obsolete.
Until then, they are invaluable.
Progress bars *are* nice for some applications. Maybe yours is one
of those; I'd say you're in the best position to make that call.
However, displaying progress is not what Growl is for. It is for
notifying you that something has finished (or failed). It exists
mostly so that you don't have to watch a progress bar; you don't
have to wait around watching the progress bar to know when the job
is done, because the application will tell you through Growl when it
is done.
If CocoaDialog currently sucks, the correct solutions are (a) to fix
it or (b) to write a better version of the same idea. Growl is not
an implementation of the same idea.
For your make-and-upload-a-zip-file script, you might consider using
Transmit to upload the file. This would solve your sucky-progress-
bar issue and provide Growl notifications for free, since Transmit
supports that itself.
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