Re: progress

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From: Finn J Johnsen (finn_at_OSLO.no)
Date: 04/21/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 13:40:37 +0200

Sparky wrote:

> Of course you can do a Microsoft approach and write an exponential "false"
> progress bar... like in IE - initially it whizzes along, but gets slower and
> slower. Ok, well I'm half-kidding.

Well. it is better to show that your system has a pulse, than just a "hang".

> I had a similar issue myself - I couldn't see a way to pass progress events
> back with webservice. So I write a simple routine to pass chunks of the
> file - say 1024 bytes each time. Then the client knows exactly where it is.
> And actually then you can zip up your file beforehand which will greatly
> decrease your upload time.
>
> hope that helps :-)

The thought of chopping it up has crossed my mind, and I just might go
for it. Just split it to staically 100 chunks will do.

I am compressing the XML. bzip2. In one test i did it reduced the size
of the XML from 36MB to 500k. So I see no other way than compressing
when stuck with ISDN.

One other way i though of, was to refer to the xmldata as a file. And
just sending the reference to an URL to the client. There are lots of
components with events that give progress while downloading stuff. But
the way you suggested here, gives more control though.

Thanks....

Finn

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