Progress Bar Updates

[Alex Tweedly]

Bill Vlahos wrote:
> I've successfully used libURLSetStatusCallback for getting the status 
> when downloading from a web server and updating a progress bar. 
> However, when I try it for opening a file from a file server it 
> doesn't work. Below is the code for the file server open in a button.
>
> global vSyslogFile
>
> on mouseUp
>    answer file "Open Syslog File:"
>    if it is not empty then
>       libURLSetStatusCallback "myProgress",the long ID of me
>       show sb 1 -- progress bar
>       put URL ("file:" & it) into vSyslogFile
>       hide sb 1
>    end if
> end mouseUp
>
> on myProgress theURL,theStatus
>   if "loading" is item 1 of theStatus then set the thumbpos of sb 1 to 
> (item 2 of theStatus/item 3 of theStatus)*(the endvalue of sb 
> 1-startvalue of sb 1)
> end myProgress
>
> Does this not work for these kinds of put URL commands?

No, it doesn't. The docs for it say
> Summary:
> Sets up a callback message to be sent periodically during uploads and 
> downloads.
When you do, e.g.,     put URL ("file:abc.txt") into temp
control doesn't return to you until the put is complete.

-- Alex.