Is it possible to use a progress bar in Photoshop?

Hi,
I'm developing an automation plug-in to Photoshop. It take long time to do the work, I therefore want to start a none modal dialog with a progress bar and a cancel button. I did not find any example of this in the SDK. Is it possible to use any of the functions in the PIProgressSuite.h for this kind of dialog?
Regards,
Mattias

I don't think you will have much luck with the progress suite. It is used for one operation that your plug-in would control. You are probably using multiple Photoshop events and want to sum them up in a progress bar. Ideally you would want a double progress bar, one for the overall progress and one for the step progress. Unfortunately, the progress suite will get reset with each process that Photoshop tries to show progress for. Your best bet is to just use an OS progress bar in your dialog. Figuring out the progress will be dificult.

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