Progress bar showing steps

I’m working on modifying our current script for Mac’s since the new mac’s came out. I’m using applescript and have a 17 different “do shell scripts” that do certain things like install software, bind to domain, etc. At then I have a delay restart command. The script runs, but I was curious if there was to add a progress bar or maybe configure it to show what step it’s on. Thanks in advance

If you want a log file on your progress this is one way to do it.

-- This creates a textfile with TextEdit and every my writeToLog adds what you want at the end of the text file.

my initLog()

-- your script goes here
-- Doing some stuff
-- Logging stuff done
my writeToLog("----------------------------------------------------------")
my writeToLog("Part one done")
-- Doing some more stuff
-- Logging stuff done
my writeToLog("Part two done")
my writeToLog("----------------------------------------------------------")

-- If you want to include variables in the log.
my writeToLog("Part Three done on " & yourVariableName & " sucessfully")




----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Create log file subroutine
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

on initLog()
	
	set MyLogIntro to "Set your text here."
	
	set logIntro to return & "My script started " & (current date) & return & return & ¬
		"----------------------------------------------------------" & return
	
	
	tell application "TextEdit"
		activate
		
		try
			set noDocs to false
			repeat until noDocs = true
				if exists document 1 then
					set noDocs to false
					close document 1 saving no
				else
					set noDocs to true
				end if
			end repeat
		end try
		
		
		try
			make new document at the beginning of documents with properties {text:logIntro}
			set the bounds of the first window to {10, 0, 500, 500}
		on error
			display dialog "Could not create text window"
		end try
		
	end tell
	
	
end initLog

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Write to log subroutine
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

on writeToLog(LineText)
	tell application "TextEdit"
		activate
		try
			tell text of document 1
				set lastPara to (get the last paragraph as text)
				set the last paragraph to (lastPara & LineText & return as string)
			end tell
		on error errtext number errnum
			beep
			activate me
			display dialog "An error has occured: " & return & errtext & return & "Can't write to the log. [NotNumberedLogLine]" & return & ¬
				"Cancelling..." buttons {"Cancel"} default button 1 with icon caution
		end try
	end tell
end writeToLog

You can use AppleScript’s progress properties. Here’s a sample of how:

use AppleScript version "2.4" -- Yosemite (10.10) or later
use framework "Foundation"
use scripting additions

set progress total steps to 10
set progress completed steps to 0
set progress description to "Starting"
set progress additional description to "Ready to go"
delay 1
set progress description to "Working"
repeat with i from 1 to 9
	set progress completed steps to i
	set progress additional description to "Step " & i
	delay 1
end repeat
set progress completed steps to 10

As an alternative to those above, you can use a simple notification system such as:

myNotification("This is what I am doing", "Analysis of new files ")

on myNotification(myMainText, myTitle)
	display notification (myMainText) with title myTitle sound name "Frog"
end myNotification