The window is opening fine, but the script will not continue until the popup window is manually closed! This is not desirable, as I would rather the window close itself after n seconds...
So do I have to open the window in a separate thread from the rest of the script? Is that even possible?
Here's my code so far:
function showMessageWindow()
{
var script = getScriptName(); // initialized from the function below
var message = new Window("dialog", script);
message.add("StaticText", undefined, "The script " + script + " is now running, please wait...");
message.show();
var startTime = new Date().getTime(); // in milliseconds
var currentTime = new Date().getTime(); // in milliseconds
var waitTime = 5000; // 1000 milliseconds is 1 second
var delay = function()
{
while( (currentTime - startTime) < waitTime)
{
currentTime = new Date().getTime(); // in milliseconds
}
} // end of closure delay
delay(); // calling the delay closure function here
message.close(); // close the message after the specified delay time
} // end of function showMessageWindow
// called from the function showMessageWindow
function getScriptName()
{
var scriptName = "";
try
{
scriptName = File(app.activeScript).name;
}
catch(e)
{
scriptName = File(e.fileName).name;
}
return scriptName;
} // end of function getScriptName
