Booting up with progress bar

I was running Spotify earlier today with a completely dim screen to save battery. The battery died and I just plugged it in and tried to wake it up. I saw the screen for a few seconds and then it went black. Trying to brighten the screen did nothing and neither did pressing the power button. So I decided to hold down the power button and restart. When I did, I got the apple logo with a spinning wheel and a progress bar under it. It's been sitting like that for over an hour with the progress bar not filling at all. What should I do? Should I let it sit like that and see if it fills eventually? Or try to reset the pram?

Try restarting your MacBook Pro in recovery mode (holding down the command + R keys while restarting) then run disk utility on your hard drive to repair it. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1782

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> Hi friend,
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> but above image in only support eclipse E3 application so pleas help me how to add progress bar and message in eclipse E4 application
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