Pausing Code to wait for file copy

Classic Servoy
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I’m playing around with copying file and zipping them. Its all pretty sequential i.e. copy file now zip it. I just tried to copy a 2 gig file and zip it - it failed and I suspect the reason is the copy process didn’t complete before the code executed to zip the file.

Is there a more graceful way to do this…? I’m think some kind of a “pause” to allow time for the copy to complete. Better yet would be if the zip function zipped TO a folder. (I’m working with IT2Be tools to perform the zip)

any thoughts?

function getFile(event) {

	var f = plugins.file.showFileOpenDialog(1,null,false,new Array("TXT and CSV","txt","csv"));
	f = plugins.file.convertToJSFile(f)
	gfileFull = f
	gfileName = f.getName();
		
		var fcopy = plugins.file.createFile("c:/temp/" + gfileName);
		application.output('ffcopy:' + fcopy);
		if(!plugins.file.copyFile(f, fcopy)){
			
			application.output("failed");

		}else{
			application.output(plugins.it2be_tools.zip(f.getAbsolutePath(),true));
			application.output("success");

		}
}
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Take a look at the functions streamFilesFromServer or streamFilesToServer (depending on which way you want to go)
These functions allow you to specify a callback method, which will run once the task is completed.
It gets even better: streaming will happen in the background, so your users can continue to do their work in the meantime… :-)

Hope this helps!

3

I’ll look at that - thanks