While setting the position for "Display Progress" works, setting the size seems to fail. I tried "Set Next Engine Position and Size" and "Set Next Engine Window Size". Is "Display Progress" excluded from resizing?

[image] ArturAs: Is "Display Progress" excluded from resizing? Yes -- and no. You can't resize the dialog manually, nor with the "Set Next Engine Window" Action. You can do it with AppleScript: tell application "Keyboard Maestro Engine" set theWindow to item 1 of (get every window whose na…

Thank you. I agree that this solution is of little value, since it does not increase the space available for content.

The Display Progress window is not resizable.

[image] ArturAs: I agree that this solution is of little value, since it does not increase the space available for content. Depending on what you are trying to achieve, take a look at using a "Custom HTML Prompt" -- for example, @DanThomas 's excellent Floating Progress Bar macro -- or, if you…

As an alternative, I wrote a thing that shows progress through the various stages of a macro: [image] MACRO: A list-based alternative to the Progress action Macro Library My MacroBackerUpper macro is quite involved, and can take a while to run, so I used a bun…

Floating Progress Bar macro griffman Nice! I left a suggestion at your original post.

Display Progress and Set Next Engine Window Size

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griffman August 30, 2026, 12:25pm 6

As an alternative, I wrote a thing that shows progress through the various stages of a macro:

It's more work to set up, but much simpler to maintain if you've got a complex series of things being done in a long macro.

-rob.

Display Progress and Set Next Engine Window Size

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