download collection as zip file progress bar

[ccb]

Does anyone else think that the "Download collection as a zip file"
could use a progress bar? It can take quite a while to generate
the .zip file and I have had users find it really confusing that there
is no notification that the file generation is in progress. Has
anyone written or looked at writing a progress bar or notification of
some sort for this purpose?

[njenney]

There is a 'Loader' plugin but I don't know think it will work in this
scenario since it is more of a client side function.

http://rswiki.montala.net/index.php/Plugin_list

[Blue-J]

we can provide the graphic if someone can program the updating of it,
unless you just want an illusory progress bar that just swirls and
hypnotizes, which is fun, too.

- J

[Dan Huby]

I'm not sure it's possible to do a true progress bar as the zip
command doesn't feed back its progress. But a looped animation would
work.

[ccb]

I think a looped animation would be fine. There just needs to be
something that shows users that there is something happening in the
background.

[Brian Adams]

From the zip manpage:

-v   Verbose mode or print diagnostic version info.

          Normally, when applied to real operations, this  option
          enables  the  display  of  a  progress indicator during
          compression and requests verbose diagnostic info  about
          zipfile structure oddities.[...]

I don't have time right now to play with this, but just thought I'd throw it out there in case anyone else is 

interested in tackling it.

-Brian

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[Dan Huby]

On 15 Dec, 16:40, Brian Adams <wreal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From the zip manpage:
>
> -v   Verbose mode or print diagnostic version info.

I spotted that option in the command line help but didn't read the man
page. I wouldn't have expected verbose mode to do that. Potentially
useful.

Bear in mind that this would have to work with the Windows zip
utilities too, or at least not break horribly.

Dan