Progress bar/slider

[JimmyHartington]

I like the new Progress Bar Action.
But it is not in all my macros it is possible to calculate a percentage for the progress.

So a action in the same style as the Progress Bar could be a Progress Slider.

I imagine it could just af a start and stop action setting instead of a progress value.

Then it could set to start before a series of actions and set to stop after they have completed.

Does anybody else think this could be a good addition to Keyboard Maestro?

[ccstone]

Hey Jimmy,

I like the general idea, but I don't like the springy slider.

It's too similar to a normal progress bar and it's function ambiguous (in my opinion).

-Chris

[Zabobon]

@JimmyHartington

Then it could set to start before a series of actions and set to stop after they have completed.

It already exists - built right into the System and is affectionately known as the Spinning Beach Ball of Death

[JimmyHartington]

Hi Chris

I see what you mean. It could maybe then be a spinner of some sort.
I am open for ideas. And willing to make a design suggestion if @peternlewis wants it.
Or maybe there is something like it built into the system, which can be used.

[mrpasini]

What you want is an indeterminate progress bar.

In Mirror Mirror, I use this (which is subsequently closed by Window ID (you can see how it works in the macro's code).

[JimmyHartington]

Ahh. Yes. I thought it should be possible with the Custom HTML Prompt. Did not know how to close it afterwards.
Will look into it.
But a native solution would still be nice

[JimmyHartington]

I made a solution I can use.
I have embed an image in the Custom HTML Prompt and it works fine with the function to close it at the end.

Progress indicator Macro (v10.0)

Progress indicator.kmmacros (23 KB)

[Zabobon]

That is great! Actually very relaxing to look at.

@JimmyHartington

[peternlewis]

I'm not clear on how this is different to the existing Display Progress action intermittent indeterminate option?

[JimmyHartington]

Hi Peter

It isn't. I had not read the wiki for this action, so did not know that setting it to -1 would create this:

So now I have two options. The Custom HTML one og the progress bar one.

Thanks for all the help to all.

[JimmyHartington]

Here is a macro using the native way to display a progress indicator.

Progress indicator NATIVE KM Macro (v10.0.1)

Progress indicator NATIVE KM.kmmacros (2.4 KB)

[tiffle]

@peternlewis

existing Display Progress action intermittent option?

@peternlewis I followed the link but can't see anything about an intermittent option. What am I missing?

[ccstone]

@tiffle

What am I missing?

“If the value is less than 0, the progress will display an ==indeterminate== value.”

I think Peter misspoke (or misspelled as the case may be).