Image Processor Task Progress

Question

Bridge should display an overall progress bar when it is performing a batch image processor task. It would be nice to see at a glance how many of the images have been completed and how many remain.
Bridge should have an option to play a sound (fanfare) when it completes a batch image processor task.

Answer 1

it seems to me that there should be a script command for the progess bar. Simply put, a call to show the progress meter with a particular value. Pseudo-code:
n = 0;
while (loop)
n++
progress_meter ("message here", n / total)
[...work]
end
I don't know applescript, so the syntax is for demonstration only. But the point is that if bridge/photoshop had a entry point for scripts to initiate a progress meter, the script-writer can choose how to present the interaction to the user.
The API proposal I used above assumes that the first parameter to the function is a message to display in the progress meter, and the second parameter is a percentage value to indicate how far along the meter should present.
Perhaps there could be other params to pop it up and to take it down, which would only be necessary when the user wants to do so independently of the default behavior (which would be to pop up upon the first call to it, and to take it down when the script ends).
dan