FileGetSize not returning right values

[vaughner]

Hello all,

Been programming with AutoIt for a few years now mostly for work, and have never really posted here. I have always been able to find answers by searching, but I can't find an answer to this though.

I am writing a program that downloads files / encrypts files / decrypts files. So I have alot of cases where I am reading or writing alot of data to the disk. I have created another .au3 that is compiled to monitor the transfer progress.

IE:

Main app runs progbar.exe like this:

$runPath = "progbar.exe " & $sourceFile & " " & $destFile
Run($runPath)

So this launches my progress bar app with command line parameters.

If $CmdLine[0] <> 0 Then
    $sourceFile = $CmdLine[1]
    $destFile = $CmdLine[2]
EndIf

The progbar.exe app takes these two file paths and runs FileGetSize on them. It then loops dividing the destination size by the source size and multiplying by 100 to get the percentage of the total file downloaded or processed.

The problem is, as soon as the FileCopy starts, the destination file is registered with windows as being full size. I'm assumbing that information is part of a header string for the files or something. (I haven't had any experience with this yet) So as soon as the file download starts, the progress bar shows complete.

I'm not sure what to do, as I don't know if there is any way of getting the 'actual' byte size and not what it is going to be when it's done.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Vaughner

AutoIt3 3.3.0.0

SciTE4AutoIt3 Version 1.78

[JackDinn]

have a look at this copy and progress bar

or this copy with progress

hope it helps.

Edited May 29, 2009 by JackDinn

[vaughner]

Man Jack, i've look for hours for that. In over 2 years, this is the first time I couldn't find something. :/

I should have realized that I needed to do the operation as binary, THANKS SO MUCH!!!

[JackDinn]

np.