urlstatus question

[Ron]

See, this is what I'm talking about -
Thanks Josh.
I actually had gone a different direction with my progress bar but  
your example gives a more comprehensive solution.

Cool site, I'll have to explore it some more.

Thanks
Ron


On Oct 29, 2009, at 1:34 PM, Josh Mellicker wrote:

> 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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