Applescript Studio Beginner - Run a script and display a window

Hi,
I am new to applescript studio ; I found out how to make an application displaying a window with a progress bar.
How can I start running a script without displaying any window, and at some time in the script, run the "awake from nib" handler that will call the display of the progress bar ?
Thanks,
Nicolas

Nicolas Silvestre wrote:
How can I start running a script without displaying any window, and at some time in the script, run the "awake from nib" handler that will call the display of the progress bar ?
The "awake from nib" handler is called automatically when your nib file gets loaded, you don't call it yourself. I suppose you could go thru the pain of putting your window into a separate nib file and then have your script load the nib file when you're ready... but that's not the easiest way to do it and you probably don't need to do this for your situation.
All you really need to do is go into Interface Builder, select your window object and uncheck the checkbox in the "Window Attributes" pane that says "Visible At Launch". The "awake from nib" will still be called at it's normal time and your window will be loaded but it will not be displayed.
Then you can do whatever other scripting you need to do... and when you're ready to display your window you simply call:
show window "yourWindowsAppleScriptName"
You can do your initial scripting at the beginning of "awake from nib" and then call "show window" at the tail end of "awake from nib" if that works for you. But you don't have to have the "show window" call in your "awake from nib"... you can call it later on in some other handler if you need to.
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