DFL, Progress Bar, and how to use it against a download

[Chris Miller]

On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:11:38 -0500, Lester L. Martin II  
<Lester at ewam-associates.com> wrote:

> Lester L. Martin II Wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I could probably figure this out if I actually put some time to it but  
>> I seldom have enough time to think such through perfectly.
>> My question is how do you use DFL's progress bar with Tango's HTTPget  
>> and display a progress.
>> If anyone has an answer I would love to see it as this is going to be  
>> needed really bad in the project I'm working on(maybe others will join)  
>> and I'd rather not spend a whole day implementing this perfectly when  
>> their is already a way to do it so I can put my attention to more  
>> important things.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Lester L. Martin II
>
> Or tango's httpclient; I think I know how I'm just not sure that when  
> you call read with the delegate and length will read call the delegate  
> and supply the array of specified length and do so until it gets through  
> or will it read that length and stop and wait for you to call read again.
> If anyone has an example with HttpClient and the delegate read thing I  
> described I'd love to see it.  If it does require to call read more than  
> once, how do you check that you have read everything and there is  
> nothing more to read.
>
> Lester L. Martin II
>

Not sure about Tango, but with the DFL ProgressBar, you can set the  
'maximum' property to the file size and update the 'value' property to the  
current size downloaded.