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Originally posted by SmokingCookie
However, Microsoft has been so nice not to write an easy function to detect progresses 
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just some quick thoughts without checking things first:
I very much doubt that there is an API like that which shows how much percent/ratio is completed. What maybe might exist is a callback function which reports back how many bytes have been saved so far or something.
But:
- You can't use such callbacks in Messenger Plus! anyways since they will be more than likely asynchronous callbacks.
- You still need to know the size of the complete file in order to be able to show a progress bar (which is always in the form of a ratio: x out of y, or x green/blue bars out of a total of y bars).
What you could do instead is showing a 'busy' indicator to the user. In that way the user still wont be able to see how much longer it will take, but he would be able to see that the script is still busy downloading. As a bonus you could also show the amount of bytes already downloaded, which is another good indication that the script is still busy doing usefull stuff instead of being in a dead-loop or been froozen.
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