worse comes to worse, you can always display text asking the user to
wait, and remove it when the copying is over.
it can even be a film loop or animated gif so that there's some motion,
even if it's just a simple repetitive animation...
but whatever you do, riki, don't lose that number.
-bhakti, groaning right along with all of you
riki witehira wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
> Haven't been able to find anything on this yet... thought all your brilliant
> minds would have the answer.
>
> i am using buddyApi's baXCopy function to copy a directory form a CD to the
> users hard drive... problem is, i need some form of progress bar as at
> present the system looks like it is locked up until the copying is complete
> and knowing from what i do when it looks like the computer is locked up, i
> need to make it look like it's doing something.
>
> the script is as follows.
>
> on exitFrame me
> set copyAll = baXCopy( the moviePath&"\TestFiller" , "c:\TestFiller" ,
> "*.*" , "Always+", true)
>
> set deskShortcut = baMakeShortcut( "c:\TestFiller\test.exe" ,
> "c:\windows\desktop" , "test movie")
>
> if copyAll = 0 then
> go to "shortcuts"
> else if copyAll < 0 then
> go to "error"
> end if
> end
>
> any ideas or hints would be most appreciated.
> thanks
> riki
>
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