revCopyFile progress window not showing in front
Hello gang, using revCopyFile and it works great on Mac (internally a shell call)- and I noticed there is a very nice progress indicator provided but it appears behind the window/stack that launched it and is basically useless as it's always obfuscated. Is there a way to make this indicator show in front or is this a bug? As revCopyFile is blocking, it's not possible to do anything to bring it forward after starting (unless 'send in time??) sqb -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: revCopyFile progress window not showing in front
Hi, I believe this progress indicator shouldn't be visible at all. It is AppleScript and in my view it isn't done very well. The progress indicator you see is part of the Finder, not LiveCode. Perhaps you could use some GUI scripting to bring that particular window of the Finder to front, but I expect it to be a big hassle. If you would consider using LiveCode's read and write commands, you could create your own progress indicator. Another option is to write a better AppleScript programme that doesn't display the progress indicator. Another option is to use the cp or mv command in the shell and use a gif image of a circular progress indicator. Although I don't like circular progress indicators, this solution works very nicely. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 See what you get with only a small contribution. All our LiveCode downloads are listed at http://qery.us/zr On 5 okt 2011, at 21:56, stephen barncard wrote: Hello gang, using revCopyFile and it works great on Mac (internally a shell call)- and I noticed there is a very nice progress indicator provided but it appears behind the window/stack that launched it and is basically useless as it's always obfuscated. Is there a way to make this indicator show in front or is this a bug? As revCopyFile is blocking, it's not possible to do anything to bring it forward after starting (unless 'send in time??) sqb -- ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: revCopyFile progress window not showing in front
Thanks Mark. See below. On 5 October 2011 13:07, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.comwrote: Hi, I believe this progress indicator shouldn't be visible at all. It is AppleScript and in my view it isn't done very well. The progress indicator you see is part of the Finder, not LiveCode. Mark, it's not applescript (fortunately) any more except for OS 9 which is no longer supported by Rev. From the docs: On Mac OS systems, it uses AppleScript; on OS X, Windows and Unix systems, it uses the shell function. I didn't know this either until I read the docs. And I *really did* see it, lurking behind. It's incredibly fast, which Applescript is not and why I'd rather not 'roll my own' - which could be slower. Also I don't think read and write commands handle resource forks or packages properly. And yes I know it's NOT a livecode routine, but as it's a shell call - it should have some option for this. I'm calling it a bug for now. This stack takes a list of files by file suffix (using Ben's non-recursive file and folder walker), does a second managed pass and creates categorical folders named by the suffix chosen, then moves the chosen files to the folders. Incredibly fast. Works great except for the progress dialog that hides. It's a great progress indicator and only shows on bigger file transfers. Small ones don't show. As it should be. I created this to try and clean up folders of misc crap on my desktophttp://fulton.barncard.com/stax/filesorter.pngand doing this by hand was tedious and inaccurate. the UI is funky but hey, it's made for me thanks is this thing useful to anyone else, BTW? sqb Perhaps you could use some GUI scripting to bring that particular window of the Finder to front, but I expect it to be a big hassle. If you would consider using LiveCode's read and write commands, you could create your own progress indicator. Another option is to write a better AppleScript programme that doesn't display the progress indicator. Another option is to use the cp or mv command in the shell and use a gif image of a circular progress indicator. Although I don't like circular progress indicators, this solution works very nicely. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 See what you get with only a small contribution. All our LiveCode downloads are listed at http://qery.us/zr On 5 okt 2011, at 21:56, stephen barncard wrote: Hello gang, using revCopyFile and it works great on Mac (internally a shell call)- and I noticed there is a very nice progress indicator provided but it appears behind the window/stack that launched it and is basically useless as it's always obfuscated. Is there a way to make this indicator show in front or is this a bug? As revCopyFile is blocking, it's not possible to do anything to bring it forward after starting (unless 'send in time??) sqb -- ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: revCopyFile progress window not showing in front
Hi Stephen, The docs are wrong. RevCopyFile uses AppleScript, not the shell, on Mac OS X. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 See what you get with only a small contribution. All our LiveCode downloads are listed at http://qery.us/zr On 5 okt 2011, at 23:21, stephen barncard wrote: Thanks Mark. See below. On 5 October 2011 13:07, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.comwrote: Hi, I believe this progress indicator shouldn't be visible at all. It is AppleScript and in my view it isn't done very well. The progress indicator you see is part of the Finder, not LiveCode. Mark, it's not applescript (fortunately) any more except for OS 9 which is no longer supported by Rev. From the docs: On Mac OS systems, it uses AppleScript; on OS X, Windows and Unix systems, it uses the shell function. I didn't know this either until I read the docs. And I *really did* see it, lurking behind. It's incredibly fast, which Applescript is not and why I'd rather not 'roll my own' - which could be slower. Also I don't think read and write commands handle resource forks or packages properly. And yes I know it's NOT a livecode routine, but as it's a shell call - it should have some option for this. I'm calling it a bug for now. This stack takes a list of files by file suffix (using Ben's non-recursive file and folder walker), does a second managed pass and creates categorical folders named by the suffix chosen, then moves the chosen files to the folders. Incredibly fast. Works great except for the progress dialog that hides. It's a great progress indicator and only shows on bigger file transfers. Small ones don't show. As it should be. I created this to try and clean up folders of misc crap on my desktophttp://fulton.barncard.com/stax/filesorter.pngand doing this by hand was tedious and inaccurate. the UI is funky but hey, it's made for me thanks is this thing useful to anyone else, BTW? sqb ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: revCopyFile progress window not showing in front
Are you saying that inside a stack inside the bundle there is a do as applescript in the script for this command? hard to believe - it's pretty responsive. On 5 October 2011 14:40, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.comwrote: Hi Stephen, The docs are wrong. RevCopyFile uses AppleScript, not the shell, on Mac OS X. -- ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: revCopyFile progress window not showing in front
Yup. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 See what you get with only a small contribution. All our LiveCode downloads are listed at http://qery.us/zr On 5 okt 2011, at 23:48, stephen barncard wrote: Are you saying that inside a stack inside the bundle there is a do as applescript in the script for this command? hard to believe - it's pretty responsive. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: revCopyFile progress window not showing in front
On 10/5/11 2:56 PM, stephen barncard wrote: Hello gang, using revCopyFile and it works great on Mac (internally a shell call)- and I noticed there is a very nice progress indicator provided but it appears behind the window/stack that launched it and is basically useless as it's always obfuscated. Is there a way to make this indicator show in front or is this a bug? I'm pretty sure the progress bar is coming from the Finder, so if Finder isn't in front, the bar won't be either. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
