[Closed] Using ProgressStart.. have to confirm twice to actually cancel

Jun 14, 2013 3:27 am

I’m in max 2012. Trying to use progressStart/progressUpdate/getProgressCancel/ProgressEnd
After hitting cancel or escape, it makes me hit yes twice OR even sometimes thrice to confirm that I do actually want to stop. I’ve cut the script right down to pretty much just the progressbar functionality and I’m still having the issue. Anyone know a way to get it to behave?

Cheers,
Cg.

(
 	animationrange = interval 0f 1000f
 	progressStart "Uh huh"
 	for i = 1 to 1000 do
 	(
 		slidertime = i
 		progressUpdate (i/10.0)
 		if getprogresscancel() do exit
 	)
 	progressEnd()
 )

2 Replies

Gravey

Jun 14, 2013 3:27 am

MaxscriptReference:

[left]progressUpdate <percent>
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[left]Updates the bar display to show the given percentage complete (in the range 0-100). This function also checks to see if the user has clicked the Cancel button in the progress bar and returns true if the computation should continue and false if the user has requested a cancel. You can also call getProgressCancel(), described below, to check the cancel status, which is a low overhead function and so may be called more frequently than progressUpdate().

[left][b]getProgressCancel/b
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[left]A low-overhead function that checks whether the user has canceled the operation via the Cancel button in the progress bar. You may want to call this function frequently within deep loops in your code to reduce cancel latency for the user, because you should only call progressUpdate() as needed to show significant progress bar changes to keep overhead low. The getProgressCancel() function, as well as progressUpdate(), displays a confirmation dialog if the use hits the cancel button and returns the cancel status from that confirmation. UnlikeprogressUpdate(), this function returns true if the user has made a confirmed cancel request and falseotherwise.
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