TC 7.5 rc1 - Windows 7 progress bar for background transfer

[j]

What about the TBPF_ERROR state?
It would be really nice to have it, so stalled operations can easily be spotted.

Thanks.

[ghisler(Author)]

I will consider it for a later release. Btw, any idea how Windows 7 determines which progress bar to show when there are multiple windows?

For example, when I start copying in background and foreground, the bar doesn't change when I activate the background copy window or main window.

[j]

The basic algorithm is described on MSDN (see remarks):

First the priority is checked (INDETERMINATE/NORMAL/PAUSE/ERROR) and after that, the progress with the lowest value is shown.

[Postkutscher]

Quite analog to the first message in this thread, but I think a little bit different.

Before reproducing be sure, that you have "don`t group" for taskbar activated.

1. Start to copy a very big file (some GBs) into nul
2. Pause process
3. Start process
4. Move process to the background
5. Pause process
6. Start process
7. Cancel process

You can have green and yellow on your taskbar from time to time for a foreground window and a background thread, which is not always matches to reality (look for example after cancelling before confirming "ok") . You can also have a progressbar of the main window close to 0, when cancelling a background copy. Try to variate a moment of cancelling the copy process. Try to break on pause and on process.

[Postkutscher]

Seems to be fixed in TC7.5RC2 . Thanks.

[Postkutscher]

I can see another problem.

1. Start to copy a very big file (some GBs) into nul
2. Move process to the background
3. Pause process
6. Start to copy the same file into nul in the main TC`s window.
7. Pause process.
8. You can see, that the progressbar of the main window in the taskbar want not to stay yellow. After some milliseconds it becames green!

TC7.5RC2 under Win7 X64

[ghisler(Author)]

Thanks for confirming the fix!

2Postkutscher
It's a mystery to me how Windows 7 merges multiple active progress bars to one taskbar window...

[Postkutscher]

2ghisler(Author)
It was observed under the condition, that the Windows was not allowed to merge progressbars of different windows (via taskbar options).