Progress bar for downloading with inet[solved]

[Narfy]

Ive never used a progress bar before so i have no clue how they work or how to get them work.

I have a auto-update thing for one of my programs and it downloads 2 files off the internet to replace with the older versions of them on the users computer, how can i add a progress bar to tell the user the progress on the 2 files the update program is downloading?

[Ideas Man]

If you are using the INet control, you can't do it, you have to use winsock to display a progress bar.

[Narfy]

thats not good, im using inet
if its not possible using a progress bar, how would I show a percentage or like a 23kb/928kb thingy?

[Ideas Man]

I'm not sure on the Winsock way, i could never get it to work personally. If the file is only small, all i do is have a little animation running while it says Downloading Update... that way you can still use the Inet control and it keeps the user occupied

[jemidiah]

Does the Inet control save a file as it downloads?

[Ideas Man]

It must cache it somewhere, but where is unknown. I've looked everywhere but i've never found an answer to this problem.

[Narfy]

bump

[Narfy]

I finally found the answer

http://www.visualbasicforum.com/t20422.html

[Ideas Man]

That's cool, do you recon you'd be able to attach it to this thread, i don't really wanna sign up for that one just to download that file.

[Madboy]

send it

[Narfy]

sure

[Ideas Man]

Cool, thanks Narfy.