Progress Bar During Patch Compression

[le717]

Feature

As requested by PatchIt! Version 1.1.1 RC tester JimbobJeffers:

I selected my Rock Racers folder for creating a patch, and it took quite a while to complete. I wasn't sure how long it would take nor whether or not the program had crashed or something. I don't know how feasible it is, but some sort of progress update would be nice. As the program does take not of the files it's processing (it outputs to the log), perhaps you could run a preliminary scan on the number of files/folders to process, convert it to some usable percentage, and use print whenever a significant amount is reached? E.g. every 10%. It would help for large mods. 😄

Comments

This is completely doable. However, it will be postponed until Version 1.1.2 3. Version 1.1.1 2 is already really large, and I would like to have a smaller release for a change.

The Implementation

A percentage may not be possible, but some form of a progress bar is. Correct, the files it is sorting is not displayed, only logged. I did this because I didn't want a bunch of text flying onto the screen. However, since a GUI is not here yet (@rioforce has made one in QT4, but I have to learn OOP before I can use it), a bunch of text may be the only way. I can't do a bunch of dashes being printed horizontally across the screen, the command window is not capable of doing that. I could display the files as they are compressing, in similar fashion to how LUCA does it (I actually wrote the "progress bar" in that program).