[Zope] Re: Tracking upload of files to Zope

[J Cameron Cooper]

>>The question is: to where do you want to read the progress?
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>I want to display to the users how far their upload is ... at this moment
>the browser looks like is has fallen a sleep.
>And the people uploading files are not used to do that (very novice users)
>so displaying and upload status to them would be nice.
>
>>Most clients, however show you the amount of bytes already
>>sent to the server, this should be informal enough.
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>Browsers?
>No ... they just load the new page - that's what make the users think the
>website has fallen into sleep and they start clicking all sorts of things.
>
I suppose you could open a new frame or something that says "Please 
wait, upload is in progress" while the frame actually doing the 
uploading waits to return. Upon returning, it could have a bit of 
Javascript to blitz the "wait" frame. Ick! Did I just recommend Javascript?

If you want a count, you'll have to do something like I previously 
posted, which will almost surely involve hacking ZServer to get the 
len() of the temporary file or some such and somehow streaming (constant 
refreshes?) the content back to a separate frame/window/client/whatever.

But really, it's a client-side problem.

             --jcc

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