ProgressBar/Scrolling Text Progress and a Shell program

[amaazouz]

Hello,

I was wondering if it's possible to use and update a ProgressBar or a Scrolling Text Progress with a shell program (Shell.Execute).

Thanks,
Abdessamad

[amaazouz]

What I'm needing is to call a shell script (before patching) from a new screen having a Progress bar (cz my script takes several minutes).

Is that possible?

Thanks

[jassing]

Your best bet is to have whatever you're running display a progress bar.

however, if you want VP to do something, you'll need to do a File.Run() and NOT WAIT for it to complete; then your VP lua code can scan processes, and display "still working!' or something until it sense that your spawned process has completed.

-josh
ps: It's best not to reply to your own messages -- most of the time, I (and others) just scan forums for messages w/ no responses...

[amaazouz]

Thanks Jassing.
I looped on the g_IsProcessRunning() function using an Application.wait() to update the Progressbar, and it worked perfectly.