Hello!

I am trying to get a file from a FTP site, i cant seem
to know how iam going to reflect the percentage of the downloaded file. I wanted it to be shown via progress bar. Any idea?

-Dhodie

if the size of the original file is not known, instead of a progress bar you can display the amount of data read in a label in a second-based interval, so the user knows that something is going on, like "Downloaded 10.7KB..."

Hi Marco,

Downloading file from FTP is just one part of one big process. After downloading the file, the application will do another task like converting the downloaded file (a text file) into recordset
then loop thru that and validate some values and so on. I have previously created a progressbar and reflected the percentage completion as i loop thru the recordset, now I wanted to include the process of getting the file from FTP to the progress bar. The processes are as follows:

- Get the file from FTP
- Convert downloaded file to a recordset
- Loop thru recordset to validate some values

I have used FTPGetFile API but this does not return any status of the process. Any idea?

Thanks.

-Dhodie

for what you want to do FTPGetFile is too much high level.
You can use FTPOpenFile, FTPGetFileSize, and InternetReadFile (using the last one asynchronously you can display a progress bar). More coding, more control...

Marco

Hi Marco,

I'll play around with
FTPOpenFile, FTPGetFileSize, and InternetReadFile.

Thanks for the reply.

-dhodie