progress set problem

[Stuempi]

Ok lads,

another little problem from me...

I'm trying to add a progress bar to my nifty little script.

The script works fine and is running several programs.

Now I want the progress bar to display the progress procentual to the number of programs already started.

So I have $numberPrograms as the total number of programs which will be started.

That's what I came up with:

DIM $count = 1
DIM $numberPrograms = 35
ProgressOn("Progress Meter", "Programs run...", "Program Nr. " & $count & " of " & $numberPrograms)

For $i = $count + 1 to $numberPrograms step $count
    
    $count = $count + 1  
    RunWait("notepad.exe")
    ProgressSet( $i, "Program Nr. " & $i & " of " & $numberPrograms)    
    
Next
ProgressSet(100 , "Done", "Complete")
sleep(500)
ProgressOff()

Mostly I took the stuff from the help file, but now I have problems setting the processSet right for the procentual amount of programs to run?!

Hope you can help me... thanks!

Edited November 5, 2009 by Stuempi

[BinaryBrother]

I'm not that great at math, but I do know to anyone who is, this is a simple solution.

If your running 35 programs, and you want the progress to be at 100% when you have ran the 35th program, division should answer that...

100/35 = multiplier... In other words... For 35 programs, your code would look like so...

DIM $numberPrograms = 35
ProgressOn("Progress Meter", "Programs run...", "Program Nr. 0 of " & $numberPrograms)

For $i = 1 to $numberPrograms
 
 RunWait("notepad.exe")
 ProgressSet(Number($i*2.8571428571428571428571428571429), "Program Nr. " & $i & " of " & $numberPrograms) 
 
Next
ProgressSet(100 , "Done", "Complete")
sleep(500)
ProgressOff()

As for generating that on the fly... I would assume it should look something like this...

DIM $numberPrograms = 35
DIM $multiplier = Number(100/$numberPrograms)
ProgressOn("Progress Meter", "Programs run...", "Program Nr. 0 of " & $numberPrograms)

For $i = 1 to $numberPrograms
 
 RunWait("notepad.exe")
 ProgressSet(Number($i*$multiplier), "Program Nr. " & $i & " of " & $numberPrograms) 
 
Next
ProgressSet(100 , "Done", "Complete")
sleep(500)
ProgressOff()

I could be way off, and I didn't test any of that... but it looks right...

Edited November 5, 2009 by BinaryBrother

[Stuempi]

Hey BinaryBrother,

you had a small mistake there...

DIM $multiplier = Number($numberPrograms/100)

should be

DIM $multiplier = Number(100/$numberPrograms)

otherwise it works exactly as I wanted it.

Thank you very much

[Malkey]

I changed the abbreviation for number to No. This is based on Latin: numero.

Dim $count = 0
Dim $numberPrograms = 35
ProgressOn("Progress Meter", "Programs run...", "Program No. " & $count & " of " & $numberPrograms)

For $i = 0 To $numberPrograms - 1

    ProgressSet(100 * $count / $numberPrograms, "Program No. " & $i & " of " & $numberPrograms)

    Sleep(1000)
    $count = $count + 1
Next
ProgressSet(100, "Done", "Complete")
Sleep(2000)
ProgressOff()

[BinaryBrother]

Glad to have been of some assistance. My bad on the inversion... x.x