UI improvements - progress bars and others

[mysteryman]

It can be a pain looking in so many tabs for progress of a download, a par repair etc. It would be nice if you could add a couple duplicate progress bars/indicators to the program. Here are a few that I think would be nice. If any are controversal... they could always be implemented as a setting.

1. Progress bar of file (not article/part progress) in connections box. It should go to the left of the article progress.
2. Download progress bar inside PAR2 tab, for collection as well as files.
3. Progress bar inside search tabs if files/collections are added to queue.

A couple other things I thought might be nice are:

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6. Recognize zipped nzbs (multiple per file) for import/auto-import.
7. Option to move imported nzbs to a specified directory (and optionally zip) for later use, similar to the IMPORT_ option.
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EDIT: added 8 and 9 and took out 6 (already supported)
EDIT2: added 10 and 11 a few minutes later.
EDIT3: removed a bunch, moved to separate threads.

[Hecks]

6. Alt.Binz already supports zipped multi-NZBs.  Just drop the .zip in your autoimport folder, or drag'n'drop, or select from NZB button.

7. Can you explain this a bit more? Do you mean move them to a folder other than the default NZB folder?

Have you tried undocking PAR2 tab while downloading?  You can resize it so it fits snugly in the bottom half of the queue tab. That's what I do when I need to watch both tabs at the same time for some reason, anyway.

[mysteryman]

6. Sorry about the zip feature, it only said nzb on the settings window, so I never even tested it. I just did, and it works fine.

7. Lets say I have the autoimport dir be \usenet. Then I create a directories under it "downloads" and "imported." I want the default download dir to be "downloads" and any imported nzbs to be zipped, then moved (without being renamed preferably) to \usenet\imported.

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[Hecks]

7. Ah, I see.  The default NZB folder is already different from the default download folder - so you can have that directory structure now.  Anything put in the autodownload folder will also be moved to the /import folder.  Zipping is another matter.  I'm not sure it makes much sense to zip inidividual NZBs.  If Alt.Binz could add NZBs to an existing .zip archive, though, then you'd be talking ... (I hoard them too )

... although this should already be possible to do as well with an 'Execute Command on Completion' script, e.g. using 7zip (which also handles bzip2, gzip & tar):

7z.exe a -tzip NZB_archive.zip C:\blah\import\*.nzb

We need cr4zyfr4g!

[Hecks]

Hmm ...

Your first post is now becoming a bit of a shopping list of requests.  Please could you split them up and make separate posts, grouping like with like.  Otherwise it's hard to find stuff, and follow any discussions.  Plus it decreases the likelihood of any one of them being implemented.

[mysteryman]

that look better?

[cr4zyfr4g]

7z.exe a -tzip NZB_archive.zip C:\blah\import\*.nzb

We need cr4zyfr4g!

I don't have gzip here to test and won't install it

but i will do that for you next week

[Hecks]

It occurs to me that it might just be easier to have an option in Alt.Binz to toggle the NZB folder as a zipped folder.  This is effectively the same as adding NZBs to an existing archve from the commandline.  in both cases, the folder can be opened/browsed like any other Windows folder.  You just can't move/copy to one from the commandline without something like 7zip or WinZip.