WScript Shell Popup / WScript Echo - How to Pop Message That Disappars

I'm hacking together a .vbs that converts a series of .csv to .tsv

I need it to do a pop-up or other message telling me which file it is up to.

I've tried these:

   set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
   Result = WshShell.Popup("Converting " & objFile.Name & " ..." , 3 , , 64)

... and ...

   wscript.echo("Hello")

But I get a Pop-Up where it waits for me to hit OK

I don't want it to wait - I just want it to say the message and then disappear by itself.  Waiting for the OK also holds up the script, so if I have to process a batch of 100 files, someone has to sit there and keep hitting OK

I can run without a status, but then I don't know what it is doing....

Thanks
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Bill PrewConnect With a Mentor Commented:
See if this gives you some ideas...

Set objExplorer = WScript.CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application","IE_")
objExplorer.Navigate "about:blank"
objExplorer.ToolBar = 0
objExplorer.StatusBar = 0
objExplorer.Width=400
objExplorer.Height = 100
objExplorer.Left = 0
objExplorer.Top = 0
objExplorer.Visible = 1
objExplorer.Document.Body.scroll = "no"
For i = 1 to 5 
    objExplorer.Document.Body.InnerHTML = "Test message #" & i
    wscript.sleep(1000)
Next
objExplorer.Quit

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~bp
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nffvrxqgrcfqvvcCommented:
Actually the example in your question would work the second parameter is the amount of times in seconds to wait.. so eventually if you waited three seconds it would go away by itself. However you probrably want something better.. You could have your script create a blank page resize it the page small and write the current file as HTML then close the window upon next entry.

Popup Method
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x83z1d9f(v=vs.85).aspx
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drgdrgAuthor Commented:
Elq1044 - I agree it "should" work but it doesn't.  I put in a 3 second delay and it never continues until I hit OK.   I don't know if this is a Windows 7 thing or not.

Billprew - will test and post back.  Thanks
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drgdrgAuthor Commented:
Worked great, thanks.  You've given me an idea to add several more indicators.

If you know ...  I'm processing through a CSV file that's been read in.  I want to count up the number of rows read in from the file.  While I can do this (below) it is slow with 1 million rows.  Is there a built in attribute / etc. that I can just reference that already knows the number of rows in the stream?

Thanks

            ' Count the number of rows
            rowcount = 0
            Do Until objFile.AtEndOfStream
                  strLine = objFile.ReadLine
                  rowcount = rowcount + 1
            Loop
            objExplorer.Document.Body.InnerHTML = "Converting " & rowcount & " Rows"
            wscript.sleep(1000)
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QlemoBatchelor, Developer and EE Topic AdvisorCommented:
No, nothing built-in. The issue is that you need to read the whole file (stream) to know how many rows it contains.
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QlemoBatchelor, Developer and EE Topic AdvisorCommented:
While the IE approach showing a updating web page is a good idea, and allows for some GUI tricks like a progress bar, I would be more inclined to use a real Windows Form object for that. However, my personal approach for logging or showing progress is to use the console (cscript), and just echo there (WSript.Echo or WScript.StdOut.Write - the latter errors with wscript, but allows for writing into the same line when used with cscript).
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QlemoConnect With a Mentor Batchelor, Developer and EE Topic AdvisorCommented:
Instead of using the number of lines as progress indicator you could use the number of bytes, objFile.size, and count the bytes you already read.
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Bill PrewCommented:
==> Instead of using the number of lines as progress indicator you could use the number of bytes,
==> objFile.size, and count the bytes you already read.

+1 on this, I was just about to post this (versus number of lines) when I saw that Qlemo mentioned it.  There is an attribute that you can query on the file object to get the size of the file without reading it in, and then as you process each line you can add the length of that line to an accumulator of bytes processed, and compared total bytes to calc progress.

~bp
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nffvrxqgrcfqvvcCommented:
If you use the byte approach you will have to consider extra bytes that won't be picked up like line feeds which could be two extra bytes per line, one million lines without accounting for line feeds would give you an unpredictable percentage value.
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drgdrgAuthor Commented:
Thanks so much. I will test the byte idea - that should be close enough. Thanks
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