urlstatus question

[Josh Mellicker]

Ron,

Here's some code that will drive a progress bar and put some text  
underneath like "2 minutes 28 seconds remaining @ 135 KB/sec":

http://revcoders.org/calctimeremaining/


On Oct 28, 2009, at 5:58 PM, Ron wrote:

> Thank you Alex,
> No one had replied yet so I kept looking. I found some similar code  
> in a project from someone else and realized they were using  
> libURLSetStatusCallback so once I found that, I could do the coding  
> myself. The pdf docs certainly give the impression that  
> libURLDownloadToFile is sufficient without the  
> libURLSetStatusCallback but with this, I am getting the update I  
> need and can set the progress bar etc.
>
> Thanks again for the reply,
> Ron
>
>
> On Oct 29, 2009, at 3:55 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
>
>> I haven't noticed a reply to this .... if there was one and I just  
>> missed it, then I offer my apologies (especially if i contradict  
>> that answer ;-)
>>
>> I haven't look at the user guide - this is info from the  
>> documentation (dictionary).
>>
>> The last parameter to libURLDownloadToFile is a status callback  
>> called only when the operation is complete (whether it succeeds or  
>> fails). To get a periodic status callback, you need to call  
>> libURLSetStatusCallback - see the dictionary entry for it and for  
>> libURLDownloadToFile
>>
>> -- Alex
>>
>> ron barber wrote:
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> I am downloading a file from the web to my HD using
>>> libURLDownloadToFile. I copied the scripts in Rev's user guide which
>>> also says:
>>>
>>> "As the URLStatus changes periodically throughout the download
>>> process, the button's
>>> showStatus handler is executed repeatedly. Each time a showStatus
>>> message is sent, the
>>> handler places the new status in a field. The user can check this
>>> field at any time during
>>> the file transfer to see whether the download has started, how  
>>> much of
>>> the file has been
>>> transferred, and whether there has been an error. "
>>>
>>>
>>> This sounds like the showstatus message is sent without any further
>>> coding from me but I am not getting any intermediate messages,  
>>> simply
>>> 'downloaded' at the end of the download. I've tried 'sending' and
>>> 'repeating' but I'm missing something.
>>>
>>> My script (basically copied from the guide)
>>>
>>> on mouseUp
>>>  put specialFolderPath("desktop")&"/newfile.zip" into newfile
>>>  set the fileType to "????zip "
>>>  --set the fileType to "ddskdevi"
>>>   libURLDownloadToFile myfile,newfile,"showStatus"
>>> end mouseUp
>>>
>>> on showStatus theURL
>>>  put the URLStatus of theURL into field "status"
>>> end showStatus
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ron
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