I have a blank app which, on execute, creates a series of tables for me via a FOR loop. Is there any way to provide screen feedback as to what it is doing similar to
sc_alert("CREATING: ".$newtable);
It will display an alert at the very end of execution, but would like something as it progresses since there is a noticeable lack of built in progress bars, etc.
I am also interested to find out how this can be done. I have done something like this in the past, but had to change it to just with the busy indication. I could not get a progress bar to work. Have a look at Progressbar | jQuery UI . Let us know your progress.
Not tried, but my approach would be to setup a small module that only displays the progress bar and updates it on a timed event by performing an (ajax) request to the server. This event will investigate the status of the designed process and return a progress that is used for the progress bar. The real process will run and set a certain progress status in a global variable or database. This status is picked up by the progress bar event. To combine both modules in one form (dashboard app?), you should be able to have a good starting point?
A dashboard app may be the only way to do it. Let me ponder on that.