Re: [cgiapp] dynamic stats and progress bar for file uploads

[Eric <suppressed>]

At 08:59 AM 4/28/2005, Cees Hek wrote:
> On 4/28/05, Wojciech Pietron <suppressed> wrote:
> > But I think, that there are some different needs for such a progress
> > bar. For example, I have same queries that last about 20 seconds and the
> > user doesn't know what is going on. I realize, that the script will
> > never know, how long it takes to do such a task. But I rougly do and
> > would like to give a user such a progress bar that would be filled up
> > systematicly for a specified amount of seconds given by me. If the query
> > is ended earlier, the bar would fill quickly till the end. If the query
> > is extended in time for some reasons, the bar is kept 100% filled for a
> > few seconds longer than it used to be.
>
> Sure, that sounds very reasonable.  The uploadmeter itself is just a
> bunch of numbers and are rendered by a stylesheet.  You should be able
> to change the stylesheet to make it look however you like.  And as for
> the server side implementation, I'm going to try and abstract this out
> so that you can hook into it in different ways.  One way being the
> upload monitor, but in your case it would be a simple response timer
> that could be updated intermitently by your code.
>
> I haven't really thought about an API for this yet or a namespace for
> that matter.  I don't think it needs to be specific to
> CGI::Application, but I'll definately make it easy to use in
> CGI::Application.  I'd welcome any suggestions (including suggestions
> to take this off list if it is too off-topic for CGIApp).
>
> Cees
>
> ps someone that tried the uploadmeter this morning is caught in an
> endless update loop.  I am getting a request per second from an upload
> that has already completed.  This is definately my fault, as I
> probably missed something in the JavaScript, but I thought I would
> mention it anyway.  It may have been caused by someone cancelling the
> upload midway through.

I might have done that, I was trying to pick a file that didn't have 
anything sensitive to test with in it, but I ended up with was a fairly 
large file, so I did cut it short. Sorry.. Very nice looking BTW..

Eric




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