Hi Rand,
I think you would be much better using callbacks rather than trying to block. In my experience, it is not always clear what is being blocked & what isn't. Here is what I do, in roughly the same circumstance:
First, make a script local where each line contains the name of one file to download.
Make another that contains the FTP path e.g. "ftp://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/folder/"
(All the variables starting with "s" are script locals.)
Then call the "doNextDownload" handler ONCE ONLY.
-- loop through downloads
--
on doNextDownload
add 1 to sFileCount
if sFileCount > the number of lines in sDownloadList then
-- all the downloads are finished, do any tidying up or alerts
exit doNextDownload
end if
put line sFileCount of sDownloadList into tFile
startDownload tFile
end doNextDownload-- start downloading file
-- getSaveFolder returns the full path to the folder where the download file is to be saved
-- sFtpAddress is a script local that has already been set to include the FTP username, password & path
--
on startDownload pFileName
put getSaveFolder() & pFileName into sSaveName
put sFtpAddress & pFileName into tURL
put tURL into sFtpURL
libURLDownloadToFile tURL, sSaveName, downloadDone end startDownload
-- after download, if successful, process file -- go on to next one regardless -- on downloadDone pURL, pURLStatus if pURLstatus contains "error" is false then -- do whatever you want with the downloaded file: sSaveName else -- handle a download failure end if -- loop to doing the next download doNextDownload end downloadDone
I am saving the downloaded files to disk. I know you want to show them in fields, but I'm sure you can adapt these techniques to suit, either by downloading to a temporary file, or downloading into memory in some way.
Cheers, Sarah [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.troz.net/Rev/
On 8 Sep 2004, at 8:06 am, rand valentine wrote:
Basically, what I need to do is to download up to 10 files to update an
informational database -- I have files on a webpage that hold the
information -- I have no problem uploading any number of files to this
webpage, but I can't seem to get proper downloading to work. I was using a
"put" command because it was said to be "blocking," which I assumed to mean
that the script commands following the "put" command would not be executed
until the file was fully downloaded. But it appears that this is not the
case. So here's my question: what is the best way to do this, i.e., to ftp
download a bunch of files and have them download in serial sequence?
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