Progress bars when packing directories

[Juergen]

Hi all,

when I have selected several directories in one panel, and then in the "Pack files" dialog window, I select
[v] Create separate archieves, one per selected file/dir
and use the built-in ZIP packer, a little window with 2 progress bars is shown while packing takes place. Both progress bars are frequently updated. OK.

But when I use my own packer plugin instead of the built-in ZIP packer, only the upper progress bar is frequently updated, the lower bar remains white and shows 0% during the whole process.

Of course the plugin calls the function defined by SetProcessDataProc() periodically, and passes the amount of copied bytes to it. What am I doing wrong?

Regards,
Juergen

[Juergen]

Now I realized that the same thing happens with the Diskdir v1.1 plugin, written by Ch. Ghisler.
So it seems to be a glitch of the packer plugin interface (tested with TC 6.53).

Regards, Juergen

[shocquer]

I couldn't reproduce your problem using bzip2 plugin, also from mr. ghisler. as i couldn't found source of it, i can't help
But if you're missing something in api, it's common problem

[Juergen]

2shocquer:

Hello, thanks for your reply.

I couldn't reproduce your problem using bzip2 plugin, also from mr. ghisler.

According to the description of bzip2 only one file per archive is possible. As I wrote, the problem appeares when multiple directories are packed. When I try to do so with bzip2, I get the error message "Too many files!".

So since the bzip2 plugin doesn't support the concerning functions, of course there can't be any problems with these functions.

Regards, Juergen

[shocquer]

sorry to mess you up, i mean using tar.bz2 that is possible using internal tar and externat bzip2 -> so the problem doesn't affect this, as tar seems to be an internal function.