How to use urlProgress

[Andrew Kluthe]

Meant to include this link: http://www.andregarzia.com/posts/en/pubsub/


On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Andrew Kluthe <andrew at ctech.me> wrote:

> I would try to use the following instead of put url into url. This let's
> you do it in a non-blocking way as well as let you process the data in a
> callback.
>
> load URL myURL with message "downloadComplete"
>
> I really like the example Andre used on his site when describing his
> pubSub library.
>
> His example is pretty concise and works better than anything I have ever
> used when combined with his pubSub lib for updating progress bars or other
> UI elements.
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Devin Asay <devin_asay at byu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Maybe I'm missing something. I want to get progress information from a
>> rather large download from an HTTP server. This is what I'm doing:
>>
>> command downloadFile
>>     set the cursor to watch
>>     put "http://server.com/data/myfile.gz" into tRemote_GZ
>>     put "/path/to/file/pwr_complete.gz" into tLocal_GZ
>>     put url tRemote_GZ into url ("binfile:" & tLocal_GZ)
>> end downloadFile
>>
>> on urlProgress pURL, pStatus, pMessage, pBytesTotal
>>     put "Downloading " & pURL & cr & "Status: " & pStatus &&  pMessage &&
>>  "of TotalBytes: " & pBytesTotal \
>>           into fld "prog"
>> end urlProgress
>>
>> Nothing ever shows up in field "prog", but the download eventually
>> succeeds. I can see the file on my hard drive after it has downloaded.
>>
>> Am I doing something wrong? I'm on OS X 10.7.x and LC 6.0.2.
>>
>> Devin
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Devin Asay
>> Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
>> Brigham Young University
>>
>>
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>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Andrew Kluthe
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>



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