Well, I agree that progress indication isn’t the best part of it.
And, yes, I can read database for progress indication. Just the code will get a bit messy on the way, since there are Oracle and Ms servers out there. There’s also security involved, some have trusted databases signon and etc.
So this thing was time consuming to write, we instead made “notification module”, sending out emails on macro runs. Had to choose feature set )

And now we’ve got a simple script that periodically updates macro execution statistics (by reading the database). And that statistics are used for drawing % complete.

That’s another workaround, but since 8.2 is already out and you can do the same thing with built-in tools, we don’t spend much time on improving this script.

Thanks for comment )

A better solution is to read the macro execution status from the database, and work out the percentage complete.

You can use some simple HTML/Javascript to fill a div box with the percentage complete…or just use a freely available Progress Bar library.

Your solution unfortunately gives no indication of how far along the progress is. It really only shows time elapsed waiting for it to finish.