Custom Progress Dialog

[Mark]

You will need AutoPlay Media Studio 7.5 in order to use this example.

With the release of AutoPlay Media Studio 7.5 I thought I would create a quick example that shows how dialogs work, and one possible way to use them in order to show custom progress during a File.Copy() operation. This example will copy the contents of the the project's “AutoPlay\Buttons” folder into the project's “AutoPlay\Audio” folder.

The majority of the work happens during the CopyFile dialog's “On Show” event. There the example uses the File.Copy() callback function to control the progress bar and set the name of the file that is currently being copied.

The dialog is shown when the button is clicked using the DialogEx.Show() action and closed after all the files have been copied using the DialogEx.Close() action.

Again this is a simple example, and not much different then the progress provided by AutoPlay Media Studio's Status Dialog. But if you've ever wanted to customize the Status Dialog before, with AutoPlay Media Studio 7.5 and custom dialogs you can.

Important Note: When you preview this example the following files will be copied from the project's “AutoPlay\Buttons” folder into the project's “AutoPlay\Audio” folder:

green_pill.btn
grey_pill.btn
grey_rounded.btn
orange_pill.btn
red_pill.btn

No other changes will be made to any files on your system.

[jassing]

Nice example; shows off the dialogex feature nicely.

[Solmos]

This not a sustitute of statusdlag show.... only works by functions with callbakfunction...

NOT WORK for example with Registry.GetKeyNames...

On show event, the aplication is blocked during search in keys... any sugestion for customize this tipe of dialog?

thx

(sorry for my bad englsih)

[Mark]

Hi Solmos,

You are correct this is not a substitute for the Status Dialog and yes it only works with actions that support callback functions. It's simply an example that shows how you can show some custom progress for certain actions.

As far as I can see, since Registry.GetKeyNames() does not have a callback function and will wait until all key names have been retrieved, there is no way to provide progress using this method.

[Solmos]

ok, thanks

but, not is possible add reg.getkeynames in dialogex in the next update?

thx

[holtgrewe]

Simple transitions of Dialogs are possible. I've attached an example for users to expand upon. Of course this will require AMS 7.5...

[Mark]

Neat stuff holtgrewe! Dialogs offer designers a lot of new options. I can't wait to see some of the ideas and tricks that people come up with.

[azmanar]

Holt,

This is a fantastic example.

Thanks.

[Sam Lee]

Sorry There is no new in this sample??

[tnx]

Sounds interesting. recon i will download this and have a look.
have to wait till i get on the PC.
AMS not in this lappy...

[hmza]

its very good

[Braca]

It is a good example but I have a problem when I try to change the destination does not work I asked for help urgently. thanks
This is the original code in the example above and I'd put it in another path so I asked someone to help me for all I know I tried and I failed. original example works but when I change the path will not work

original code:
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function FileProgress(Source, Destination, Copied, Total, FileCopied, FileTotal)
-- Set the file name
if (Source ~= "") then
Label.SetText("FileName", "..."..String.Mid(Source, String.Length(_SourceFolder) + 1, -1));
end

-- Update progress
Progress.SetCurrentPos("Progress1", ((Copied/Total) * 100))
-- A little bit of time to make the example last longer
Application.Sleep(200)
return true
end
-- Copy some buttons into the temp directory
File.Copy(_SourceFolder.."\\AutoPlay\\Buttons\\*.* ", _TempFolder, false, true, true, false, FileProgress)

-- Done
DialogEx.Close()
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I would like to C:\Down\ copy all the data on D:\asds\