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Hello everyone

I've just upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10, and discovered that tray tips can no longer be used to track progress (since (a) setting a new tray tip does not instantly cancel the previous one and (b) the tray tip does not display instantly but instead sort of flows in from the side, not to mention (c) making notification beeping noises).

$j = 100
For $i = 1 to $j
TrayTip ("Progress...", $i & " processed so far", 10)
Sleep ("100")
Next

What other simple forms of showing progress on screen are available?  I know of ProgressOn, but that only shows a bar based on percentages.  Is there a way to include numerical information on the ProgressOn progress bar, e.g. "currently processing $i out of $j"?

Sometimes my script don't know what "100%" is going to be, but I would like the progress to be displayed on screen anyway.  I could use a ToolTip:

$j = 100
For $i = 1 to $j
ToolTip ($i & " processed so far", @DesktopWidth - 200, 100, "Progress...")
Sleep ("100")
Next

Do you know of any ready-made GUI elements that I can use to output similar progress messages?

Thanks

Samuel

 

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leuce,

Perhaps my Notify or Toast UDFs might be of use - links are in my sig.

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ChooseFileFolder ---- Single and multiple selections from specified path treeview listing
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GUIExtender -------- Extend and retract multiple sections within a GUI
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GUIListViewEx ------- Insert, delete, move, drag, sort, edit and colour ListView items
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Marquee ----------- Scrolling tickertape GUIs
NoFocusLines ------- Remove the dotted focus lines from buttons, sliders, radios and checkboxes
Notify ------------- Small notifications on the edge of the display
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Toast -------------- Small GUIs which pop out of the notification area

 

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;~ #include "_TraySetToolTip_Ex.au3" ; http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=146910

If HotKeySet("[ESC}", "_Hotkey") = 0 Then exit MsgBox(16 + 262144, Default, "Hotkey ESC invalid or set by another application.")
Local $iLoopcount = 0
While Sleep(1000) ; never ending loop
    $iLoopcount += 1
    _TraySetToolTip_Ex("Loopcount: " & $iLoopcount)
WEnd
Exit

Func _Hotkey()
    MsgBox(64 + 262144, Default, "Exit", 3)
EndFunc   ;==>_Hotkey

Func _TraySetToolTip_Ex($sText = "")
    ; #include "_TraySetToolTip_Ex.au3" ; http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=146910
    If Not $sText Then $sText = Chr(0) ; Chr(0) = no tooltip displayed
    TraySetToolTip($sText)
    Local $_SysTray_hToolTip = DllCall("user32.dll", "lresult", "SendMessageW", "hwnd", ControlGetHandle(ControlGetHandle(ControlGetHandle(WinGetHandle("[CLASS:Shell_TrayWnd]"), "", "[CLASS:TrayNotifyWnd]"), "", "[CLASS:SysPager]"), "", "[CLASS:ToolbarWindow32; INSTANCE:1]"), "uint", 0x423, "wparam", 0, "lparam", 0) ; $TB_GETTOOLTIPS = 0x423
    $_SysTray_hToolTip = HWnd($_SysTray_hToolTip[0])
    If Not IsHWnd($_SysTray_hToolTip) Or WinGetTitle($_SysTray_hToolTip) <> $sText Then Return
    DllCall("user32.dll", "lresult", "SendMessageW", "hwnd", $_SysTray_hToolTip, "uint", 0x41D, "wparam", 0, "lparam", 0) ; $TTM_UPDATE = 0x41D
EndFunc   ;==>_TraySetToolTip_Ex

Run this script and point the mouse pointer at the Autoit symbol in the system tray.
A tooltip appears, which changes every second.
With ESC you can leave the script.
Have fun

App: Au3toCmd              UDF: _SingleScript()                             

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