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in reply to Yet another progress bar.
The following approach just came to me while I was settling into bed, and since my memory is terrible, I thought it best to write it up quickly:
If I could somehow, not process the information immediately after the submission button was pressed, I could then at least produce a graphic, or just throw out a count of bytes recieved. Something akin to - the user submits the information by striking the submit key and before I start pulling down that information, I create a popup window ( or just use the mainwindow for all I care ) and display total kB of data I've recieved by using the -s test on a predetermined temporary file. This would of course start at 0 since the file would be there, but it would have no data initially. The transfer of the file would begin and a meta-tag Refresh would allow the page to refresh every three seconds, thus recalling the progress_handler and again -s testing the temp file. The problem is how to delay that download so I can make the initial call to progress_handler and output output something - anykind of html or display first?
Everyone has their demons...you just happen to be mine.
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