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When comparing ProgressOn and ProgressSet I noticed that the positions for the attributes "maintext" and "subtext" are interchanged:

ProgressOn("title", "maintext" [, "subtext"][, x pos] [, y pos] [, opt])

ProgressSet( percent [, "subtext"] [, "maintext"])

Not quite intuitive IMO. Since in ProgressSet both attributes are optional why not making this

ProgressSet( percent [, "maintext"] [, "subtext"])?

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When comparing ProgressOn and ProgressSet I noticed that the positions for the attributes "maintext" and "subtext" are interchanged:

Not quite intuitive IMO. Since in ProgressSet both attributes are optional why not making this

ProgressSet( percent [, "maintext"] [, "subtext"])?

My guess is because it seems much more likely that you are going to change the sub-text than the main text. By reversing the order, you would always have to specify the main text (Even if it didn't change the entire time you used ProgressSet) just to change the sub-text. Functionality over consistency.
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My guess is because it seems much more likely that you are going to change the sub-text than the main text.

You think so? I would prefer the main text (see example below). But shouldn't that be left to the scripter himself, in any case?

$a = 0
$range = 200
$step = $range/100
$percentage = 0
$test = "Testrange is " & $a & " to " & $range

ProgressOn("Progress Test", "Processing...   " , $test ,-1,-1, 2) 
For $i = 1 to $range Step 1

;Scripting goes here
Sleep(20)

   If  $i/$step = int($i/$step) Then
       $a = $a + 1
       $percentage = "Processing...   " & $a & "%"
   EndIf
   ProgressSet($a, "", $percentage) 
Next
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