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Applescript question 2 (2 posts)

• Started 9 years ago by Nico
• Latest reply 9 years ago from Jim Matthews

• Nico Member

  Hello Jim and others,

  Can you please explain what is the best way to retrieve transfer window properties back into Applescript?
  My objective is to write information about a file transfer (like tranfser rate, bytes transferred) to a logfile maintained by the Applescript.

  I did some experiments and found that my example sometimes (about 1 out of 20) reports the transfer rate correctly, but all other times the returned transfer rate is 0.

  Here is some (stripped down) code I experimented on. Can you please advise how to improve?

  ----
  on open doc
  set fetchconnection1 to fetchconnect(theServerAddress, thePort, theUserName, thePassword, theDirectory)
  repeat with oneDoc in doc
  tell application "Finder"
  set oneDocName to name of item (contents of oneDoc)
  end tell
  with timeout of 60000 seconds
  try
  tell application "Fetch"
  try
  put into transfer window 1 item oneDoc with uniquename
  on error
  --blah
  end try
  set fetch_transferrate1 to fetch_transferrate() --> this is where I try to get the transfer rate from Fetch Transfer Window 1
  display dialog fetch_transferrate1
  end timeout
  end repeat
  end open

  --Subroutines--
  on fetch_transferrate()
  tell application "Fetch"
  tell transfer window 1
  transfer rate
  end tell
  end tell
  end fetch_transferrate

  on fetchconnect(theServerAddress, thePort, theUserName, thePassword, theDirectory)
  with timeout of 20 seconds
  try
  tell application "Fetch"
  make new transfer window at beginning with properties {hostname:theServerAddress, port:thePort, username:theUserName, password:thePassword, initial folder:theDirectory, authentication:SFTP, encrypt:true}

  end tell
  on error the_errormessage
  --blah
  end try
  end timeout
  end fetchconnect

  Posted 9 years ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  If a transfer takes less than a second Fetch will report a transfer rate of zero. You might want to calculate the transfer rate yourself:

  set startTime to the current date
  set endTime to the current date
  set transferTime to endTime - startTime

  Thanks,

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 9 years ago #