On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: > I have rather amazed myself by getting 'shell' to work on Windows from a > LC script - with copious help from this list, of course. Now I find that > some of my shell commands take quite a long time, so my user may not see > anything happening and may think the app has crashed (hideConsoleWindows is > true). Can anyone suggest a way I can show the program is still alive while > the shell command is working - I'm thinking about a cursor 'busy' loop but > it seems 'shell' is blocking so that won't work. > > TIA > > Graham > > I use animated GIFs which I show just before a lengthy conversion, then hide it when shell has completed the task. It' not a progress bar, but indicates a busy state quite well.
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