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Re: Listbox type progress display?

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• Subject: [mg119466] Re: Listbox type progress display?
• From: Albert Retey <awnl at gmx-topmail.de>
• Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 07:03:03 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <isd0vg$1pt$1@smc.vnet.net>

Hi,
>
> I sometimes use a workbook as a program that should process start to
> finish.  CTRL-A, Shift-Enter.  What I would like to have is a single
> place to monitor for status.  In Windows I would use a ListBox().
> This is a small, multi-line text window with scroll capability you
> can add text to at any time.  I.e.
>
> ListBox.Add[myBox, "Starting Execution "] ListBox.Add[myBox, "Main
> task finished "] ListBox.Add[myBox, "All Tasks finished. "]
>
> Anyone know how to accomplish the same functionality with a Notebook
> interface?  It can write anywhere.  It doesn't have to be a pop-up.

This is not very sophisticated, but does the job and is relatively simple:

nb = CreateDocument[{}];

notebookAdd[x_] := (
   NotebookWrite[nb, x];
   SelectionMove[nb, After, Cell];
   )

Do[
  Pause[0.1];
  notebookAdd[i],
  {i, 1, 50}
  ]

if you don't need the history, you can also write to the status area
with

SetOptions[EvaluationNotebook[],WindowStatusArea->"test"]

hth,

albert

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