JS ScriptUI CS4: How to create an indeterminate progress bar?

sorry to bump an old thread, but i was hoping someone made some progress in this matter.

i'm in the same situation, i need a indeterminate progress bar for a script, i'we tried using a swf for it, but it only shows after the script has finished running. I can't update de palette/dialog/whatever very often, since my script basicly exports about 5 or 6 PDF's form very large documents, so the ony time i can update is when one PDF is exported, and that will not do.

Hi Jim,

Please see below the sample progressbar script.

     myPrs = new Window('palette', 'Batch Processing');
     myPrs.orientation = 'column';
     myPrs.alignment = 'right';
     myPrs.ProcessHead  = myPrs.add('statictext',[40,0,260,25], "Batch Processing...");
     myPrs.Process = myPrs.add("progressbar",[40,40,260,65]);
     myPrs.Label = myPrs.add('statictext', [150,75,200,120], "0%");
     myPrs.Process.value = 0;

     var LENGTH = 4;

     myPrs.show();

     for(i=0;i<10;i++){
         var PrCounter = 0;
         ProgressBar(++PrCounter, i+1 , 10);
         Function1();
         ProgressBar(++PrCounter, i+1 , 10);
         Function1();
         ProgressBar(++PrCounter, i+1 , 10);
         Function1();
         ProgressBar(++PrCounter, i+1 , 10);
         Function1();
     }

     function Function1(){
         for(var i=0; i<1000000;i++){}
     }

     function ProgressBar(v, x, y){
         var value = (Number(v) / LENGTH) * 100;
         myPrs.Label.text = Math.round(value) + " % ";
         myPrs.ProcessHead.text = "Batch Processing... [" + x + "/"+ y + "]";
         myPrs.Process.value = value;
     }

I think this script will solve your problem.

Regards,

Ramkumar .P