Maybe the monitored work queue would do?
I tried this. It creates a message in a separate progress window, so it doesn't do what I want.
There is no public API for this currently. If you use
BeanShell or reflection, then you can call AlbumBean.fireImageProcessingStarted and pass a
AlbumBeanEvent object describing what you're up to (passing the message in the "msg" parameter.
I added reflection and tried this and it worked, first time! I'm in shock!
I just need to make some improvements to the messages now.