VKontakte.DJ
forum traveling
 

Celestial Software

...better by design

Home Support SSH Client Forums
Welcome, Guest
Please Login or Register.    Lost Password?
File Xfer Dialog box Takes a long time to go away after (1 viewing) (1) Guest
Go to bottom Favoured: 0
TOPIC: File Xfer Dialog box Takes a long time to go away after
#2073
File Xfer Dialog box Takes a long time to go away after 19 Years, 3 Months ago  
Brian,

I've noticed in 3.50 that the file send/receive dialog box seems to stick around a few more seconds after a successful send/receive than it used to. Is there any particular reason why?

It's just a few seconds, but I find having to wait before I can start typing again to be frustrating.

What's the deal?

BTW - I can't wait for SFTP - keep up the good work!

Thanks! - Scott

[ December 16, 2004, 04:41 PM: Message edited by: Brian T. Pence ]
sscecina (User)
Fresh Boarder
Posts: 7
graphgraph
User Offline Click here to see the profile of this user
Logged Logged  
 
The administrator has disabled public write access.  
#2074
Re: File Xfer Dialog box Takes a long time to go away after 19 Years, 3 Months ago  
Scott,
Brian and I had a battle regarding this during the beta-cycle... I managed to knock a second off the delay, but Brian won the war...

Cheers,
/msa

[ December 15, 2004, 04:34 AM: Message edited by: Mattias Sandstrom ]
msa (User)
Expert Boarder
Posts: 124
graphgraph
User Offline Click here to see the profile of this user
Logged Logged  
 
The administrator has disabled public write access.  
#2075
Re: File Xfer Dialog box Takes a long time to go away after 19 Years, 3 Months ago  
So what's the reasoning behind having a (what seems to be artificial) delay? Older versions seemed to be just fine to me...

- Scott
sscecina (User)
Fresh Boarder
Posts: 7
graphgraph
User Offline Click here to see the profile of this user
Logged Logged  
 
The administrator has disabled public write access.  
#2076
Re: File Xfer Dialog box Takes a long time to go away after 19 Years, 3 Months ago  
The reason for the delay is so you can see the final transfer status. What was happening was that when the transfer completed, you couldn't tell what transferred successfully and what errored out because the screen would disappear so quickly.
bpence (Admin)
Admin
Posts: 1404
graph
User Offline Click here to see the profile of this user
Logged Logged  
 
Brian Pence
Celestial Software
SSH , SFTP, and Telnet in a tabbed interface for Windows XP, Vista, Mobile, and others
 
The administrator has disabled public write access.  
#2077
Re: File Xfer Dialog box Takes a long time to go away after 19 Years, 3 Months ago  
(Perhaps I should rest my case here, but... :-) )
Maybe having the dialogue to stick around when an error has been detected and vanish at a blink of an eye if the transfer was successful... ?

Cheers,
/msa
msa (User)
Expert Boarder
Posts: 124
graphgraph
User Offline Click here to see the profile of this user
Logged Logged  
 
The administrator has disabled public write access.  
#2078
Re: File Xfer Dialog box Takes a long time to go away after 19 Years, 3 Months ago  
(Perhaps I should rest my case here, but... :-) )
Maybe having the dialogue to stick around when an error has been detected and vanish at a blink of an eye if the transfer was successful... ?

Cheers,
/msa
msa (User)
Expert Boarder
Posts: 124
graphgraph
User Offline Click here to see the profile of this user
Logged Logged  
 
The administrator has disabled public write access.  
#2079
Re: File Xfer Dialog box Takes a long time to go away after 19 Years, 3 Months ago  
I've been contemplating a number of design changes to the zmodem window. One problem that remains and has not been addressed is the situation where some files succeed and others fail (perhaps already exist). At the end of the transfer, there's no way to tell for sure what happened.

The types of things I've thought of adding are things like a count of the total files attempted, and counts of the successful/unsuccessful files.

Additionally, I'll probably replace the status line with a scrollable status window so you can go back and see that file 1 and file 4 both failed because they already exist, etc...

And, instead of tweaking the delays around again, I'll probably leave the window up and allow the user to close it at will. There will be an 'ok' button in addition to the 'cancel' button. During transfer, the 'ok' will be greyed out and your only option is to cancel the transfer that is in progress. Upon completion, you'll have to press the 'ok' button (or the cancel button, at this point it doesn't matter) to close the window.

This allows the user to take as much time as is necessary to get information from the status window about all of the transfers that took place, while still allowing you to break out of the window instantly if you care to do so.

How's that sound?

Brian
bpence (Admin)
Admin
Posts: 1404
graph
User Offline Click here to see the profile of this user
Logged Logged  
 
Brian Pence
Celestial Software
SSH , SFTP, and Telnet in a tabbed interface for Windows XP, Vista, Mobile, and others
 
The administrator has disabled public write access.  
#2080
Re: File Xfer Dialog box Takes a long time to go away after 19 Years, 3 Months ago  
How 'bout a "close transfer window after send" option on either the transfer or global options properties?
sscecina (User)
Fresh Boarder
Posts: 7
graphgraph
User Offline Click here to see the profile of this user
Logged Logged  
 
The administrator has disabled public write access.  
#2081
Re: File Xfer Dialog box Takes a long time to go away after 19 Years, 3 Months ago  
Brian,
you do have a point when it comes to multiple files transferred, especially with small files that are quickly uploaded to the server. rz on most *NIX systems also don't allow you to clobber your files per default causing the upload to be (least to say) confused.
Sounds great to be able to dismiss the transfer-result window with either Enter or ESC. Personally, I hate seing the prompt return and not being able to go back to the terminal window... Speed-addict, I know... :-)

/msa
msa (User)
Expert Boarder
Posts: 124
graphgraph
User Offline Click here to see the profile of this user
Logged Logged  
 
The administrator has disabled public write access.  
#2082
Re: File Xfer Dialog box Takes a long time to go away after 19 Years, 3 Months ago  
FWIW: I did a small script, "rz-smart.sh" that copies the current file and clobbers the new file that is being uploaded. For this to work, change your setting for the transfer command to use this instead of simply "rz".
Code:

#!/bin/bash
 
 if [ -z $1 ]; then
     echo "Usage: $0 filename"
     exit 1;
 fi
 
 if [ -e "$1.old" ]; then
     rm $1.old
 fi
 
 if [ -e $1 ]; then
     mv $1 $1.old
 fi
 
 /usr/bin/rz -y

This script moves the file with the same name and then starts the upload. rz has an option similar with this, but then the NEW file will have a number appended...
No warranties implied for this script, but it helps me :-)

/msa
msa (User)
Expert Boarder
Posts: 124
graphgraph
User Offline Click here to see the profile of this user
Logged Logged  
 
The administrator has disabled public write access.  
Go to top