progress bar

treasacrowe · September 21st, 2004, 11:34 AM

hi does anybody know when you are uploading files, if there is a

way to show a progress bar as the file is being uploaded?

thanks!

bmains · September 21st, 2004, 11:54 AM

There is an ActiveX control that you could use.

Brian

mat41 · September 21st, 2004, 06:07 PM

I will try and find the personsname who should recieve the credits from this, i did not create it. he following is cut n paste code

-----------------------start------
<%
    Response.Buffer = False
    Server.scriptTimeout = 250000
    iProcessedSoFar = 0
    iTotalRecords = 10000
%>
<HTML>
<HEAD>
    <STYLE>
        BODY { background-color:#FFFFFF; font-family:verdana; }
        #progressBar { font-size:8pt; font:bold; border-style:solid; border-width:1px; border-color:#888888; padding:1px; text-align:center; }
        #progbar { height:6px; }
    </STYLE>
</HEAD>

<BODY>

    <TABLE WIDTH='100%' HEIGHT='100%'>
    <TR>
        <TD ALIGN='middle' VALIGN='center'>
        <SPAN ID='progressBar' STYLE='width:350px;'>
            <TABLE STYLE='color:red;' CELLPADDING='0' CELLSPACING='0' BORDER='0'>
            <TR>
                <TD ID='progbar' BGCOLOR='red'></TD>
            </TR>
            </TABLE>
        </SPAN>
        </TD>
    </TR>
    </TABLE>
    <script language="Javascript">var progBarWidth=350</script>
<%
for i = 0 to iTotalRecords
    iProcessedSoFar = iProcessedSoFar + 1
    pctComplete = (iProcessedSoFar/iTotalRecords)
    ShowProgress 2, i, pctComplete
next
FinishProgress

Sub ShowProgress(frequency, i, nPctComplete)
    if i mod frequency = 0 then
        nPctComplete = Replace(CStr(nPctComplete), ",", ".")
        Response.Write "<SCRIPT LANGUAGE='JavaScript'>progbar.style.width = Math.ceil(" & nPctComplete & " * progBarWidth);</SCRIPT>" & vbCrLf
    End If
End Sub

Sub FinishProgress
    Response.Write vbCrLf & "<SCRIPT LANGUAGE='JavaScript'>document.getElementById('pro gressBar').innerHTML = 'finished';</SCRIPT>"
End Sub
%>

</BODY>
</HTML>
-----------------------------end----------------

Wind is your friend
Matt

Andraw · February 7th, 2005, 05:17 PM

Hi, matt,

I keep seeing many people refer to this block for codes while need the progress bar, but I can't get is how it'll work in real case.
If you want to progress bar is there, at the same time, you are loading image, while you put the codes for loading image? because to let the progress bar work fine, you have to loop to keep siging value for the bar, here you use innerHTML, how about if I haven't innerhtml, just some function call?

Andraw

mat41 · February 8th, 2005, 02:15 AM

Andraw

Sorry I didnât completely understand your post, are you asking how to implement this? The creator didnât implement it, nor have I. He asked, if I do could I send him the link. My colleague used it for a heavy page load.

IMO if you need a progress bar for an image, the image is to heavy and needs to be looked at.

Wind is your friend
Matt

jacob · February 8th, 2005, 05:54 AM

Check out this thread...

http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=7507

...and perhaps this is the guy who should have the credits...

http://www.eggheadcafe.com/articles/20010610.asp

... however it doen't solve the upload-file-problem as far as i know. The problem using this method is that you have no method for getting information about the small increments in the upload.

The solution is based on the fact you know how long the task is and then chopping it up and showing the progress as these small increments have occured.

An example can be checked out here. I have used this progress bar on a site where the administrator can check for dead links stored in a database. I know how many links to check, and I know when I have checked one link, and therefore I can use this method.

Hope it helps :)

Jacob.

Andraw · February 8th, 2005, 10:11 AM

Thanks both of you's reply!
Sorry if I didn't explain my question very well.
I have a heavy page that will call a activex control to generate a word report, it will take about one minute. because to make the progress bar works fine, you have to keep looping. I just don't know where I will put the following code to make the both work together:

<OBJECT ID = WORDREPORT......>
WORDREPORT.InitializeData
WORDREPORT.GenerateRpt

these two call take some time.

Andraw

jacob · February 8th, 2005, 10:58 AM

As I see it, thats exactly the problem. You have a command, which takes a lot of time, but no increments. You do not do some task 100 times, you have one task that takes a long time to finish.

The problem with this progress bar is that you have to have these small tasks.

Jacob.

mat41 · February 9th, 2005, 01:32 AM

jacob

;;;...and perhaps this is the guy how should have the credits...

You obviously didnt read this whole post. What are you on about, I even mentioned it?

Wind is your friend
Matt

jacob · February 9th, 2005, 08:15 AM

Quote:

quote:Originally posted by mat41
jacob

;;;...and perhaps this is the guy how should have the credits...

You obviously didnt read this whole post. What are you on about, I even mentioned it?

Sorry mat41, I don't understand? Did I do anything wrong?

Jacob.