OMG It really works!!!! (with my 3billion entities with components in components in components etc.) and really really fast aswell!!! I'm so happy! You sir are a genius!

@unknownuser said:

My turn.

progessbar.rb is pretty basic. I wrote it a few years ago to fill a gap of no progress bar at all. However, it was still insufficient in its first incarnation since when SU would freeze up due to intense processing of a Ruby script in a single, synchronous thread. Anytime the SU user interface would need repainting, too bad, because the Ruby script had the thread, and the user interface, unfortunately, does not get serviced. When SU hits this wall, the first thing to go is the SU menu bar, then the whole UI freezes, even the status bar where progressbar.rb makes it updates.

I then changed progressbar.rb to add an estimated completion time. It's my opinion that this change transformed it into more than just a "cool animated bar", and into something that was actually pretty useful, since you now know that the script will take another 5 seconds, or 20 minutes, or whatever, and you can adjust your finger-tapping-on-the-desk to some other activity as needed.

The next phase will be a dialog, similar to what Rick mentioned, that will provide a persistent external dialog that will allow you to cancel the script at any time. This will require programming changes to the invoking script, but it will be a big improvement in long running rubies that you choose to cancel.

Todd

Is this already available?