Re: [MacPerl] oops!

[Angus McIntyre <angus@aegypt.demon.co.uk>]

At 1:52 pm 1/6/96, David H. Adler wrote:
>>I'm going to try Angus McIntyre's suggestion of replacing the
>>ObjectSupportLib. Hopefully that'll work.

        [ ... and then ... ]

>Eek! I just looked back at Angus' reply, and saw that it was not actually
>in response to *my* question.

That's OK. I like to feel that my responses have, uh, general
applicability. Here are some more answers that you may find useful.

        1. 39.
        2. Reboot with extensions off.
        3. Robespierre.
        4. "Well, normally I wouldn't on a first date,
            but just this once ..."
        5. They're *both* molluscs.
        6. "Little Women"
        7. (d) All the others were professional athletes.
        8. You ought to be using references for that.
        9. Between 1670 and 1678, around the time of the fall of Turin
           but well before the revival of the fortunes of the Merovingian
           Dynasty.
       10. None of the above.

Having got that out the way, a question of my own.

Does there exist a good method for getting MacPerl to show a progress bar
of some species? It's a minor point, but sometimes it's nicer to show a
Mac-like bar than to dump scads of text to the MacPerl window.

There is, of course, the AppleScriptable application 'Progress Bar', but
using that adds considerably to the overhead of any running script. What I
guess I'm looking for is a suitable XCMD (which I hope might be a little
faster).

If such a thing doesn't exist, would there be enough general interest to
make it worthwhile me trying to write one? I'm not quite sure how XCMDs
deal with maintaining objects (i.e. a window) between calls, but I presume
it's not completely impossible.

Interest? Comments?

                        A

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