Progress Bar is not showing with Document Save progress bar.

[omisharma]

Hi

I'm trying to implement a progress bar in Illustrator plugin, using sAIUser->UpdateProgress API.

But no progress bar is shown during the operation, instead "save progress" is being shown on each document save, as there is a "save as" operation in the workflow.

Can anyone please help?

Thanks in advance!

[LeoTaro]

There is only one progress bar generated by AIUser::UpdateProgress and it will only appear after a few seconds. If another plugin has called UpdateProgress after you, their message will appear.

[omisharma]

Saving the document generates generates a "saving progress", when we try save document which is big in size, and this is default by Illustrator I think.

Is there any way, in which I can show a progress bar for my own task?

[omisharma]

I have created a plugin which automate the set of actions, placing art, resizing and saving document. And plugin needs to do this for n times depending on number of art items. Here my requirement is to show a progress bar, which will be updated on each time a single item finished.

I tried with the Illustrator Suite API, but since save operation also shows its own progress bar, plugin's progress bar won't show. This might happen due to Illustrator save progress interference.

I also tried with an alternative, using the Win32 modal dialog. In this dialog there is a progress bar, start and stop buttons. On clicking start button, process of automating for n times in loop should be started, and on clicking stop process should be stopped. But here the problem is that, when I click on start button, dialog goes unresponsive until process completes.

Can anyone please provide the solution to achieve the scenario?