VBScript script progress notification

Question

I\'m a VBScript novice, writing a script that will be parsing large input file(s) and will likely take several minutes run time to complete processing. I need a way to aler

Answer 1

If you're running your script in a console window (via cscript.exe) then you can display a faux progress bar directly in the window/output like this:

First declare the following functions in your VBS file:

Function printi(txt)
    WScript.StdOut.Write txt
End Function    

Function printr(txt)
    back(Len(txt))
    printi txt
End Function

Function back(n)
    Dim i
    For i = 1 To n
        printi chr(08)
    Next
End Function   

Function percent(x, y, d)
    percent = FormatNumber((x / y) * 100, d) & "%"
End Function

Function progress(x, y)
    Dim intLen, strPer, intPer, intProg, intCont
    intLen  = 22
    strPer  = percent(x, y, 1)
    intPer  = FormatNumber(Replace(strPer, "%", ""), 0)
    intProg = intLen * (intPer / 100)
    intCont = intLen - intProg
    printr String(intProg, ChrW(9608)) & String(intCont, ChrW(9618)) & " " & strPer
End Function

Function ForceConsole()
    Set oWSH = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
    vbsInterpreter = "cscript.exe"

    If InStr(LCase(WScript.FullName), vbsInterpreter) = 0 Then
        oWSH.Run vbsInterpreter & " //NoLogo " & Chr(34) & WScript.ScriptFullName & Chr(34)
        WScript.Quit
    End If
End Function

Then at the top of your script use the following example:

ForceConsole()

For i = 1 To 100
    progress(i, 100)
Next