File Download With Progress

[GEOSoft]

I know I had somehing saved that was along the lines of what I needed and now it is on the missing list. Here is the code that I have to work with.

If NOT FileExists($Path&$File1)Then
    $NF = MsgBox (4100,'HOSTS Manager','The HOSTS file does not appear to exist on this system'&@LF&'Would you like to install one now?')
    If $NF = 6 Then
  URLDownloadToFile ( "http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt", $Path&$File1)
    Else
    Exit
    EndIf
EndIf

Now I want to add a progress meter that should be proportionate to the download.

[GEOSoft]

Sure! Ruin my day right off the start. I guess I could time the average download and installation speeds and work something out but that seems like cheating. I guess it's also not possible to get a date stamp from a file before it's downloaded.

[scriptkitty]

URLDownloadToFile is like a RunWait command, the script waits until the command is done before going to the next line, thus "no es posible"

Suggestion would be to change it into:

$NF = MsgBox (4100,'HOSTS Manager','The HOSTS file does not appear to exist on this system'&@LF&'Would you like to install one now?' & @crlf & 'Est. 1 min download')

[ryanm]

Just curious if AdLib code could get around this? If you knew the size of the file, you could make an adlib function to check the size of the file being downloaded and update the progress bar accordingly. After the download finishes, turn off the adlib.

Maybe a function could be added to AutoIt3 to get the size of an item to be downloaded with URLDownloadToFile. Something like URLGetSize($url), then use an adlib function to update a progress bar during the download.

[ryanm]

Okay, I just tried using AdLib and it didn't work. Maybe the next version of AutoIt3 could be modified to allow AdLib to run during downloads?

I like the idea of a separate script, given that the adlib thing doesn't work. Maybe have a script check to see if a parameter is specified. If not, create the progress bar and run itself with a parameter, then monitor the file while updating the progress bar. When the second run closes, the first finishes up by closing the progress bar and doing whatever you need done with the downloaded file.

Edited February 17, 2004 by ryanm