Here's the problem - I'm downloading a document (pdf) and displaying a progress
bar as I go. When the download is done I then display the document in a viewer.
I'm using Monte's mergDoc external for this but I could just as easily be
loading it into a browser object.
If I use the synchronous approach - put url pURL into url ("binfile:"&pPath) -
then it works fine. My progress bar is updated in a urlProgress handler and
when it completes I trap the 'downloaded' message in this handler to display
the file.
Now, what I really want to do is to use the load command so that the download
isn't blocking. However, if I do this then I get caught up in an endless loop.
If I use a custom message with the load command, like this...
load url pURL with message "pdfdownloaded"
and then in the pdfdownloaded handler do this...
put url pURL into url ("binfile:"&pPath)
Then this kicks off another download and the progress bar goes through its
routine again. At the end of this second go the document displays as expected.
If however I don't use a custom message and I trap the 'downloaded' message in
the urlProgress handler and try to put the loaded url into the destination file
then it kicks off another download, and then at the end of that another -
forever.
What am I doing wrong - or is this a Livecode problem?
Has anyone successfully implemented something along these lines that uses load
url rather than put url?
Regards,
Terry...
Dr Terry Judd
Senior Lecturer in Medical Education
Medical Eduction Unit
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences
The University of Melbourne
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