Re: Progess bar in Mathematica
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- Subject: [mg79961] Re: Progess bar in Mathematica
- From: Albert <awnl at arcor.net>
- Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 05:31:31 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi, > Is it possible to generate a kind of progess indicator in Mathematica? > I could use Print[] but this scrolls the screen. > > Im looking for something like > > Application.StatusBar = "Please be patient..." > > in Visual Basic for Applications for Excel. > > Any hints are greatly appreciated. > > Regards, > Wolfgang > The following is for version 6: There is the Option WindowStatusArea for Notebooks, which you can use in many ways, among them as in the following code: SetOptions[EvaluationNotebook[], WindowStatusArea -> "Please be patient..."] On the other hand, you might want to look at the documentation for ProgressIndicator which looks like it could be made exactly for what you are trying to do... hth, albert