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Posted: **Sat 30 Nov 2013, 14:27**

March 29 2015 update: pWget-0.9.1
Hi All,
This is mainly a bug-fix update, with some improvements:

Overriding the default destination folder from start window works again.
Tool-tip style added to start window
Missing .desktop file added
Better handling of URLs that end with "/download"
Multi_download improved.
changed from terminal rxvt to urxvt

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March 2015 update

Hi Puppies,
After over a year since the last version, I'm happy to announce a new one: pWget-0.9.
Many changes...it's almost starting to look like a real program

What has changed:

option download mode: terminal, silent (progressbar) or multi_download
'keep terminal open' is now an option
option dark terminal
option standby mode
wget editor
integrated wget help
export/backup preferences
no more xdialog
buttons linking to wget manual, pWget-help page, this forum thread
Pwget has become pWget

I'm trying to avoid making this a very long forum post, so if you would like to know more, see this little online pWget page (which is the page opening when clicking the "help" button in pWget)

Downloading pWget-0.9: see towards bottom of this post.
Also uploaded: the Dutch translation file for pWget-0.9.

I'm very curious to read your opinions about this new version!
Bye,

Bert

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2014-01-09: update: version 0.8.2

Hi all,

Just a small bug-fix upgrade.
I added a missing icon and added the text-domain to Preferences (yes, managed to forget that

)

I'll also post the Dutch translation file here, as a pet.

Happy downloading

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2013-12-06 update: new version: 0.8

Hi all,

Pwget 0.8 : improvements:

Preferences are now set from within Pwget. No longer using the text editor.
Windows resizable.
Clear-button for URL-entry field.

When the Preferences-button is clicked, this window appears:

which is much more user friendly than my former solution.
The changes you make are immediately available in the open pwget main window, no need to refresh or restart.

Resizable windows: Sometimes there's a need to see the whole URL at a glance, especially with long or cryptic URLs. Instead of the slow and boring scrolling in the entry field, just grab the right or left border and pull the window width out. Like this:

And finally, the URL entry field deserved its own 'Clear'-button

Hope you like the changes!
Bert

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2013-12-01: New version: 0.7
Some small internal changes, but the main change is L18L's contribution: now the terminal remains open when the download is finished, enabling to see what wget has done and to check for eventual error messages.
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Hi all,

Here's my attempt at making pwsget a better and nicer utility.
After happily using pwsget for several years now, I knew exactly what I wanted to change

This is what I did:

New layout, more intuitive, more inviting
Wider entry fields
Download-button instead of OK-button
Tooltips for entry-fields and buttons
Enable the ENTER key as alternative to clicking the Download button
'Login' and 'Password' removed (didn't work + no need + caused bug (2 rox windows))
Added a Preferences button, thus enabling:

1 preset the download location (dir/folder)
2 choose your preferred terminal
3 choose your preferred file manager
4 change the wget-arguments the way you want

It looks like this:

(I forgot to change the locale for the screenshot...that button "Annuleren" is Dutch and will of course be "Cancel" with an English locale.)

This Pwget, with a destination pre-set, is now a very fast way to download: just paste the URL and hit Enter! Faster than wget in terminal

The freedom to choose another terminal than rxvt and another filemanager than rox, also means pwget will be usable in Puppy's that do not have rox or rxvt.

Bye.

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TRANSLATIONS have been moved to their own place on page 2

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Posted: **Sun 01 Dec 2013, 12:06**

Hi Bert,

I have always directly used wget because it not display any errors and thus not translated original pwget.
But here is my contribution to your version:

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IFS=$I
#if [ $EXIT = Download ]
if [ $EXIT = "$(gettext 'Download')" ]
 then
  #`cat /usr/local/pwget/PREF/terminal` -e `cat /usr/local/pwget/PREF/wget-arguments` "$DEST" $SOURCE
  `cat /usr/local/pwget/PREF/terminal` --hold -e `cat /usr/local/pwget/PREF/wget-arguments` "$DEST" $SOURCE
  `cat /usr/local/pwget/PREF/file-manager` "$DEST"
fi

The --hold will will let the xterm opened so you can see what wget is doing.

Posted: **Sun 01 Dec 2013, 21:39**

Hi L18L,

That's a great contribution! Thank you very much.
Added to Pwget 0.7

Also thanks for the german translation. You're a turbo translator!
Sieht gut aus:

I had to make a small change in my gettext for the info-button-tooltip: now only the word 'info' is gettexted, instead of the whole tooltip. I corrected your translation file for this, attached here. (btw and off-topic, is the 'language' setting in the header of your translation a little insiders' joke, or an error?)

Speaking about languages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUeTn8FbupE

I'm going to upload the new version now.
Thanks again!

(edited because the link to youtube was broken

)

Posted: **Mon 02 Dec 2013, 15:25**

Bert wrote: (btw and off-topic, is the 'language' setting in the header of your translation a little insiders' joke, or an error?)

Speaking about languages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtP7q1Jbz9Y

Sorry for mylate reply: It is late because I was in Fatdog and there Bon Appétit did not play (now in precice:

)

which language setting is so funny
language team=none

or
language=de_BE

both have been set by the system if I recall correctly

Posted: **Mon 02 Dec 2013, 15:48**

I was wondering where the de_BE came from

If I understand this correctly, only about 70.000 people will be able to enjoy your German translation, all of them Belgian

Or did you set transLANG=de_BE?

Posted: **Mon 02 Dec 2013, 16:11**

I did the translation in Fatdog.
There I did forget to edit preferences.
Thus transLANG stayed in default de_BE (one of my locales is de_BE.UTF8)

Why de_BE?
Why not? Maybe as test for the 70000

I heared your new king also speaking German this year....

language=de_BE is just a comment.
What counts is: in which langpack this file will be:
It will be in langpack_de and not in (maybe never existing) langpack_de_BE

Thanks for asking
I will have to check my Fatdog work......

Posted: **Mon 02 Dec 2013, 16:22**

Ah, that clears up my misunderstanding.

I always thought a "de_BE" translation would not be readable in a "de" or "de_DE" or "de_AU" langpack.

Thanks for explaining. I no longer have to worry about "nl_BE" files getting into my "nl" langpack ! (something Momanager does)

Have a nice evening!

Posted: **Fri 06 Dec 2013, 17:40**

Pwget 0.8 uploaded.
See first post...

Posted: **Sun 08 Dec 2013, 11:10**

Just a quick note for Lx fans:

LxTerminal is the only terminal that refuses to run with the new "-hold" parameter (that keeps the terminal open after a download)

This is easily solved by entering "lxterminal -t " in preferences>terminal.

Unfortunately it then just ignores the "-hold" and closes as soon as the download is finished.
The "-t" solution is also mentioned in Pwget's terminal-help-window.

Any LXDE guru out there able to point me to docs or manpages? It's amazing how little there is to be found with a search engine.

Posted: **Sun 08 Dec 2013, 18:45**

What... No progress bar.?

Most web stuff has them, but it`s not terribly important I`ll agree.

Posted: **Sun 08 Dec 2013, 20:53**

sunburnt wrote:What... No progress bar.?

Most web stuff has them, but it`s not terribly important I`ll agree.

Hi sunburnt,

I've been following yourprogress bar threadwith much interest!

I did not participate (lucky you

), mainly because that discussion so far has been between experienced coders/developers. I'm just an amateur, eager to learn something new...

I looked at the progress bar examples and even considered to include the yad example by sfs, but it suddenly dawned on me that would be regress rather than progress

:

The "old" pwsget always had a ' progress bar', while wget is running in the terminal. Any alternative seems like a regression to me. I don't think the user would be helped by a progress bar that merely acts like a splash screen, hiding all other useful information.

That's why I've always liked Pwsget, despite of it being far from perfect, it is a very simple but honest tool , doing the job and showing what's happening. ( I presume that's also why Barry included it in many generations of Puppy.)

So, Pwget has a (I agree, not very sexy) progress bar, but it's accurate and doesn't hide what else is going on.

Xdialog has been a real struggle for me! It feels like a medieval system, or even worse: something from the 1980's

I can see the potential: creating really light-weight and fast interfaces, but its behaviour is abysmal! It also feels like a long abandoned project, but I could be wrong...

Thanks for taking the time to post here! I'll keep following your fascinating progress bar/xdialog thread!

Posted: **Sun 08 Dec 2013, 21:25**

I`ve gotten fairly use to Xdialog, but it`s so damn ugly.! And Yad just gives me fits...

Yes, I agree if you`re running wget in a VT, then it already has a progress bar being shown.

Posted: **Thu 09 Jan 2014, 14:44**

New version 0.8.2 and Dutch translation file.

See first post

Posted: **Fri 10 Jan 2014, 11:47**

if you want you display the quotes as quotes you could use backticks:

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		<button><input file>/usr/local/pwget/icons/help-browser24.png</input>
		   <action>`Xdialog --wrap --screencenter --left --title "'$(gettext 'Pwget - wget-arguments  - Help')'" --msgbox "'`gettext 'This allows fine-tuning wget. \n\nFor most downloading tasks the default (wget -c -P ) is usually adequate.\n\nFor more info type \"wget -h\" in a terminal (without the quotes).'`'" 470x0`</action>
		</button>

But Help is very nice.

Posted: **Fri 10 Jan 2014, 12:15**

Ah, I knew there had to be a way to display quotes in Xdialog...but could not find it!

Thanks L18L, will be corrected in next version

Posted: **Wed 11 Jun 2014, 05:03**

Still like this interface.
btw, I have to add extra parameters like

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wget --no-check-certificate -c -P

to download easy from dropbox and copy.com and

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rxvt -fg white -bg black

because i'm old and like the terminal in dark colors.
Cheers.

Posted: **Wed 13 Aug 2014, 11:40**

Thank you very much for the Spanish translation Nilson!

I'm very sorry for this late reaction. I've been away from the forum for several months, due to health issues.

Nice work:

I'll add your translation file to the first post.

Thanks again,
Bert

Posted: **Fri 20 Feb 2015, 21:32**

Hi all,

Finally, a new version available:
pWget-0.9.

What's new?

option download mode: terminal, silent (progressbar) or multi_download
'keep terminal open' is now an option
option dark terminal
option standby mode
wget editor
integrated wget help
export/backup preferences
no more xdialog
buttons linking to wget manual, pWget-help page, this forum thread
Pwget has become pWget

See the first post in this thread for details and downloading.

EDIT : In reality, the pWget window is much smaller than the screen print below! I don't know why this magnifying happens...

Posted: **Mon 02 Mar 2015, 19:31**

Hi Bert,

here is German translation for your pwget version 0.9
sorry for the delay.

EDIT : In reality, the pWget window is much smaller than the screen print below! I don't know why this magnifying happens...

My pWget window has exactly the same width...

Posted: **Mon 02 Mar 2015, 20:44**

L18L wrote:Hi Bert,

here is German translation for your pwget version 0.9
sorry for the delay.

Finally, what took you so long?

I've heard you're holidaying in Cyrillic Serbia, but that's no excuse...

Just kidding of course.
Thank you very much for the German translation L18L!!!

EDIT : In reality, the pWget window is much smaller than the screen print below! I don't know why this magnifying happens...

L18L wrote: My pWget window has exactly the same width...

Strange, this is the difference I see on my 1920 x 1080 screen:

I can of course make the forum image as small as the "real" (Cntrl -), but then the forum text becomes too small to read. Maybe need something better than €10,- reading glasses

EDIT: But compare the screenshot two post above with the biggest pWget window in this post: the latter is screenshot of the first...

Anyway, thanks again. Much appreciated!

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