I have macro that converts / processes PDF files from images to text. I use OCRmyPDF to do so and noticed that the conversion can take time. I was concerned that the macro was hanging so added a progress bar that looks like this: [2] I noticed that the progress bar is of fixed size, and a lim…

To have the progress bar linger with an updated message you can simply end your macro in this way: [image] Or for something a little more fancy: [image]

[image] Alexander: To have the progress bar linger with an updated message you can simply end your macro in this way: [image] Or for something a little more fancy: [image] Appreciate but that will get what I am after because at 100% the progress disappears, teh completion message will ne…

[image] Joel: At 100%, the progress disappears. Yes, and at any value below 100, it displays. In both my examples above the progress bar is displayed with a value of 99, for 1 second, before disappearing. Try it out, and you'll see. Your full macro example would look something like this, us…

[image] Joel: Is there a way to get the progress bar to display a different message (i..e, PDF text conversion complete!) and hang around for a second before disappearing? The "Display Progress" Action spawns the progress dialog if it doesn't already exist -- if it does exist it will update t…

@Alexander and @Nige_S Apologies for being careless and obtuse, I should have read Alexander's initial response more closely as I missed the point about placing it at the "end of your macro in this way". Of course, what is being suggested is both elegant and what I was looking for. I went the "fa…

I noticed the erroneous alert in the action [image] Apparently searching does not search for the Display Progress Progress field, which means it does not find the variable used there. Fixed for the next version.

[image] peternlewis: I noticed the erroneous alert in the action [image] Apparently searching does not search for the Display Progress Progress field, which means it does not find the variable used there. Fixed for the next version. Peter, appreciated. I noticed this too -- including the…