ID CS6 export to PDF behavior

Question

I have just upgraded form CS4 to CS6.
When exporting to PDF in ID CS4 I was presented with a progress bar whilst exporting. Also after exporting the finished PDF would open in Acrobat.
In ID CS6 neither of these things happen. I can see the advantage of still being able to use ID whilst the export is going on but I can't see indication anywhere of its progress. Am I missing something? Is there at least a setting somewhere that I can get the PDF to open in Acrobat so I can tell when ID has finished exporting?
I frequently work with files that take quite a few minutes to export to PDF and not knowing the state of their progress is quite awkward. More than once I have grabbed a PDF to email or file away that turns out to have been only partly exported because ID is still in the process of exporting.

Answer 1

@Peter – alright, after testing a bit and circumventing some problems finding the generic name of the panel, I wrote a script that would pop up the Background Task Panel in case one is doing an Export.
Could not test that with InDesign CC, but tested ok with InDesign CS5.5 and CS6 on OSX.
However I could not test on Windows and only with my German versions.
What I cannot do is controlling the position and size of the Panel.
You have to do that one time before installing the script and safe it as part of your workspace.
Here comes the code, that adds two event listeners to the app.
That means, if the script is started from the Scripts Panel it is working for the current session with InDesign. If you quit InDesign and restart InDesign the event listeners are gone. If you want to use the code permanently you have to install the script in the "startup scripts" folder under the "Scripts" folder.
//DuringExport_ShowBackgroundTaskPanel_EVENT-SCRIPT.jsx
//Uwe Laubender
* @@@BUILDINFO@@@ DuringExport_ShowBackgroundTaskPanel_EVENT-SCRIPT.jsx !Version! Wed Mar 19 2014 22:04:58 GMT+0100
//Tested with InDesign CS5.5 v7.5.3 and CS6 v8.0.2
#targetengine "DuringExportShowBackgroundTask"
app.addEventListener("beforeExport", showBackgroundTaskPanel);
app.addEventListener("afterExport", hideBackgroundTaskPanel);
function showBackgroundTaskPanel(myEventShow){ 
    app.panels.itemByName("$ID/kBGUIPanelName").visible = true;
function hideBackgroundTaskPanel(myEventHide){ 
    app.panels.itemByName("$ID/kBGUIPanelName").visible = false
I think, the "BGUI" in "kBGUIPanelName" stands for "BackGroundUserInterface"…
Of course, the panel will pop up not only during PDF Export…
Uwe