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Ian

I have rewritten Xwget in gtkdialog and converted it to a .pet package so it will install & run in Puppy 4.

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 5648 Location: hobart

Hi Ian,

I was thinking of having a crack at this...but you've beaten me to it. Curious as to why it's packaged like a Russian doll? Pup inside pet inside .tar.gz.

Ian · Posted: Mon 28 Jan 2008, 05:29 Post_subject:

muggins

I originally put it together as a dotpup then found that Puppy 4 did not include the dotpup installer so I just converted it to a pet package and just zipped it through habit not bothering to see if the forum handled .pet extensions.

Put it all down to laziness. Smile

Have you tried it in Puppy 4, if so do you have any thoughts.

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 5648 Location: hobart

No,
I've only used it on 2.16 to download one file. I remember that with xwget you wanted an internal progress-bar display. I think gtkdialog has a progress bar, but I'm not sure of what the mechanism would be of feeding wget's output back. And, (again I'm not sure of the mechanism), is pause/resume possible?

Lobster · Official Crustacean Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 10944

I already done it and Barry is putting it in the next Dingo Alpha
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=167972#167972

It even seems to work . . .
The programs seem very similar

hope I haven't trod on any ones toes . . .

Ian · Posted: Mon 28 Jan 2008, 06:37 Post_subject:

Lobster

Good work Ed, I decided to convert the original Xwget as Puppy 4 has not got tcl/TK.

muggins

I decided to go with the wget output in rxvt as it saves a lot of problems and code.
I'll look into a resume function as this would involve saving the settings to a temp file for recall.

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 5648 Location: hobart

Ian,

I was wondering if wget's progress could be monitored by parsing a log file, produced by:

wget -o log -c URL &

Ian · Posted: Mon 28 Jan 2008, 07:14 Post_subject:

I tried the -o option once but could only get the data in a text frame once the download was finished, this was in tcl/TK.

BarryK · Posted: Mon 28 Jan 2008, 19:53 Post_subject:

I don't know if it is what you need, but MU recently posted a nice little commandline utility to monitor the tail of a file in a separate window. He posted it somewhere on this forum.

MU · Posted: Mon 28 Jan 2008, 21:34 Post_subject:

gtklogfileviewer
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=25477

Mark

MU · Posted: Mon 28 Jan 2008, 21:40 Post_subject:

wget http://pro-linux.de 2>test.txt

The progress-dots are sent to stderr by wget, so you must redirect stderr (the "2") to a file.
Then you might be able to tail it.
You can do a quicktest with
tail -f test.txt
if you replace pro-linux.de with the location of a huge file, like Windows Service Pack 2. (please do not use my servers for such tests Wink

)
I did not check it myself with such a huge file.

Mark

Ian · Posted: Mon 28 Jan 2008, 22:16 Post_subject:

Thanks Barry & Mark, there is plenty to look at.

I am fiddling around with a resume download idea at the moment but if I could redirect the stderr into another prog and use it to time a progress bar it might work or read from a file in a loop to drive the progess bar.

P.S. What the heck would we do with Windows Service Pack 2. Smile

MU · Posted: Mon 28 Jan 2008, 23:23 Post_subject:

Ian · Posted: Sun 03 Feb 2008, 20:59 Post_subject:

I have done an update of Xwget-6, it now has a resume function but no pause or progres bar yet.
It is also a .pet package so it is a one click install.

aragon · Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Posts: 1278 Location: Germany

dear ian,

i've installed that one in 3.01 (don't know if there ist anything problematic).

i noticed, that after i've closed the app with the exit button, it is still in my process-list. shouldn't it be closed?!?

cheers
aragon