Thanks to Red Menace, we may have made a little Applescripting history. I’m not aware of another self-contained progress bar or modeless windowing solution this broad in scope.
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That’s a seriously impressive bit of AppleScript work. Getting a self-contained modeless UI with progress, timing and scrolling all behaving nicely is way beyond the usual “quick script” territory.
Even if someone never needs the exact same setup, I can see this being a really useful reference for building more polished AppleScript tools later on.
Thanks. You should see the independent help window system I developed. It’s a mess, code-wise, but I’ll be posting it at some point.
You should also see how I tried to turn it into an old-fashioned text window animation suite a la MS-DOS circa 1990. (Imagine armies of winding clocks and spinning arrows marching across the screen in an unkerned font.) Unfortunately the string manipulation needed to update the “buffer” crashes all over the place…