Display text in a window without "Ok" button

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@Axolotl

I would like to create a thin window containing some text which is informing about the current step that a specific macro currently is in (kind of a status window).

This macro by @griffman works very nicely to display a macro status, but it might not be a direct fit because the implementation and presentation is different than you described. With that said, maybe you could get some ideas from @griffman's work.

MACRO: A list-based alternative to the Progress action

My MacroBackerUpper macro is quite involved, and can take a while to run, so I used a bunch of calls to the Progress action scattered about the code, each with a hardcoded number as an estimate of task completion. While these worked fine, they're a major hassle if, as I have been doing, you rearrange your macro, take sections out, add new sections in, etc. A simple change can mean changing a number in almost every Progress action, scattered across 20+ separate macros. Ugh. And ugh again. I wan…