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Re: [MacPerl] oops!

On 6/3/96 Angus McIntyre wrote:

>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.

There are several HyperCard XCMDs out there that do this. Check the large
collection from Rinaldi for one example. RR

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