A basic progress spinner window is easy enough to create using AppleScriptObjectiveC. Copy the following into Script Editor and run it in the foreground (command-control-R, or use the menu command Script→Run in Foreground, which appears when you hold down the control key).
use framework "AppKit"
use AppleScript version "2.4" -- Yosemite 10.10 or later required
use scripting additions
-- convenience properties to make ASOC more readable
property ca : current application
property NSPanel : class "NSPanel"
property NSView : class "NSView"
property NSProgressIndicator : class "NSProgressIndicator"
property NSTextField : class "NSTextField"
property HUD_mask : 8192
property nonactivating_mask : 128
global progress_panel, progress_indicator, label_field
make_progress_panel()
progress_indicator's startAnimation:me
progress_panel's orderFront:me
-- just hang it out there for 5 seconds as proof of concept
delay 5
progress_panel's |close|()
on make_progress_panel()
-- make floating panel
set content_rect to ca's NSMakeRect(200, 800, 140, 80)
set progress_panel to NSPanel's alloc's initWithContentRect:content_rect styleMask:(HUD_mask + nonactivating_mask) backing:(ca's NSBackingStoreBuffered) defer:true
set progress_panel's floatingPanel to true
-- make progress indicator
set progress_rect to ca's NSMakeRect(0, 0, 40, 40)
set progress_indicator to NSProgressIndicator's alloc's initWithFrame:progress_rect
set progress_indicator's indeterminate to true
set progress_indicator's |style| to 1
set progress_indicator's translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints to false
--make text field
set label_field to NSTextField's labelWithString:"Downloading"
set label_field's translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints to false
-- make container view, and add subviews
set content_view to NSView's alloc's initWithFrame:content_rect
content_view's addSubview:label_field
content_view's addSubview:progress_indicator
progress_indicator's sizeToFit()
set progress_panel's contentView to content_view
-- view constraints, for alignment
set pi_y_centering to progress_indicator's centerYAnchor's constraintEqualToAnchor:(content_view's centerYAnchor)
set lf_y_centering to label_field's centerYAnchor's constraintEqualToAnchor:(content_view's centerYAnchor)
pi_y_centering's setActive:true
lf_y_centering's setActive:true
set lf_left_margin to content_view's leadingAnchor's constraintEqualToAnchor:(label_field's leadingAnchor) |constant|:-10
lf_left_margin's setActive:true
set pi_left_margin to label_field's trailingAnchor's constraintEqualToAnchor:(progress_indicator's leadingAnchor) |constant|:-10
pi_left_margin's setActive:true
set pi_right_margin to progress_indicator's trailingAnchor's constraintGreaterThanOrEqualToAnchor:(content_view's trailingAnchor) |constant|:10
pi_left_margin's setActive:true
end make_progress_panel
The simplest way to make this work with curl, I think, is to detach the curl process entirely and recover its pid, like so (the code at the end detaches the process and sends the output to oblivion, then returns the pid):
set curl_pid to do shell script "curl -L [url=...] &> /dev/null & echo $!"
Once you have the pid you can set up a loop (or an idle handler, if you create an app) and periodically check to see if the process is still active:
try
set b to do shell script "pgrep curl | grep " & curl_pid
on error
progress_indicator's stopAnimation:me
progress_panel's |close|()
end try
If you want a determinate progress bar, that's easy enough to manage, but you have to figure out a way to measure progress. This link suggests you can get the headers for a file first and extract the file size; you could compare that against the actual on-disk file size as the download progresses, and feed the ratio into the progress bar.
