Rép : Progress bar in Revolution

[Phil Davis]

Hi Didier,

The dots from the shell cmd with -v only show *relative* progress, 
right? In effect they tell the user "still working... still working..." 
rather than "30% done... 40% done..." because at the start, the user 
doesn't know how many dots will be shown when the zip is completed.

So if you only need to show continuing activity, you could use a 'barber 
pole' or other 'activity' image instead of a progress bar.

food for thought...
Phil Davis


Didier SANZ wrote:

> As a matter of fact, when executed with the "-v" option, the shell  
> command zip does provide a kind of progress indicator (a sequence of  
> dots) during compression.
> Even if it is drawned among verbose information...
> Anyway, do you think it would be possible to catch this "progress  
> indicator" in order to update a progresss bar in Revolution?
>
> D.S.
>
>
>> On 5/17/06 3:23 AM, "Didier SANZ" <didiersanz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> My application contains a script which uses the shell command Zip to
>>> compress (big) files.
>>> Does anybody know if it is possible to inform the user of the
>>> evolution of the process with a progress bar ?
>>>
>>
>> I don't think so... AFAIK the shell command to zip doesn't provide any
>> status information on its own so there'd be no way to update a  
>> progresss
>> bar.
>>
>>
>> Ken Ray
>> Sons of Thunder Software
>> Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
>> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com 
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