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Scripting a Progress Bar only works if total time is < 5 Seconds
Hi
I am trying to write a simple progress bar script, to use in my other scripts.// Function to update the progress bar
function updateProgressBar(value, max) {
var progressBarWindow = new Window("palette", "Progress", undefined);
var progressBar = progressBarWindow.add("progressbar", undefined, 0, max);
progressBarWindow.show();
progressBarWindow.center();
// Function to update the progress value
progressBarWindow.updateProgress = function (value) {
progressBar.value = value;
this.update();
};
return progressBarWindow;
}
// Example usage:
var progressBar = updateProgressBar(0, 100); // Create a progress bar with a maximum value of 100
var startTime = new Date().getTime(); // Get the current time
var duration = 5000; // 5 seconds in milliseconds
while (new Date().getTime() - startTime < duration) {
// Update the progress bar value based on the elapsed time
var elapsed = new Date().getTime() - startTime;
var progress = (elapsed / duration) * 100;
progressBar.updateProgress(progress);
}
// Close the progress bar window when done
progressBar.close();
this works totally fine for
var duration = 5000
for
var duration = 6000
it hangs and the progress bar doesn’t close, and is not closeable by hand afterwards.The same behavior happend when i tried to use in a script which looks in a bunch of layers. if the total time the script needs is under 5 seconds everything works fine, if it needs longer it hangs.
any ideas on that really strange behavior?
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2 Replies
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That is rather strange, I thought there was no limits of how long you can animate a progress bar timing, did you tried closing and restarting the application and then raising the number on the progress bar duration is done? Maybe some computer specs may he holding it or something. Good to test everything so you may get closer to finding out whats the culprit of this stalling after duration exceeds 5000 in the coding.
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Hi Hector
Thanks a lot for replying.
Sorry for replying so late. I was on a journey for some days.
I actually closed and restarted and tested on another computer.
The script works fine untilvar duration = 5344
from
var duration = 5345
or higher, there is this hanging and the bar doesn´t disappear.Very strange.
Do you know how other people implement progress bars in After Effcect scripts?
Maybe there is a slightly other way which doesn´t cause this trouble?
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