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wwang · 01-04-2007, 07:22 PM

I am going to make a feature request. I don't know if it is possible or not, but should be but it may depend on your current implimentation.

The update window when pages are being updated is modal and takes control of the current downloads. But I have found that if I have say 10 sites being downloaded and I have 1 reallly long page that takes forever to download, no more downloads will be started untill the update window closes and reopens with the new downloads. Would it be possible to drag and drop sites into the update window if it is running? Or at least periodically check to see if there are other downloads to be started? So that they all eventually get started if there happens to just be one site that is slow to download?

For example sites A,B,C,D. We start an update. A,B,C finish. but D may still have 20 minutes more to download. If scheduled to download E, F, G should start before D finishes, we have to wait the full 20 minutes before E, F G will start. This may not make a ton of difference, but if you realize you want to take a current set of sites with you, the 1 download can hold up the whole process.

01-04-2007, 07:22 PM	#1
wwang Connoisseur Posts: 62 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: California, USA Device: Palm TX SmartQ 7	update screen feature. I am going to make a feature request. I don't know if it is possible or not, but should be but it may depend on your current implimentation. The update window when pages are being updated is modal and takes control of the current downloads. But I have found that if I have say 10 sites being downloaded and I have 1 reallly long page that takes forever to download, no more downloads will be started untill the update window closes and reopens with the new downloads. Would it be possible to drag and drop sites into the update window if it is running? Or at least periodically check to see if there are other downloads to be started? So that they all eventually get started if there happens to just be one site that is slow to download? For example sites A,B,C,D. We start an update. A,B,C finish. but D may still have 20 minutes more to download. If scheduled to download E, F, G should start before D finishes, we have to wait the full 20 minutes before E, F G will start. This may not make a ton of difference, but if you realize you want to take a current set of sites with you, the 1 download can hold up the whole process.