Re: [OpenVerse] Bug in user cancel of a room download

[Randy <Eclipse@openverse.org>]

Thanks !

    No one should be forced to wait on a bus
that they don't want to take ! Entry into a room
by accident is nearly instantaneous, leaving that
room should be just as quick and easy.

    Help ! My computer is being held hostage while
downloading ExtremelyBloatedFileSizeRoom.gif !

    Eclipse




Ed Lange wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Jan 2000 19:55:08 -0500, Cruise <cruise@openverse.org> wrote:
> > I feel that a room download should not be cancelable. The room image is
> > very important I think.
> >
> > What do y'all think?
>
> Here's an alternative I thought of.
>
> I haven't checked the code to see if this is already in place, but the
> "Disconnect" button should also set MV(downloadingroom) to 0.  Since
> Disconnect would also effectively get someone out of a room, it probably
> should cancel all in-progress DCCs of room files, and probably object files
> too (maybe just stop all DCCs except the ones going into the download
> directory).  If this were implemented, then the problem of getting stuck in
> a room until its image finishes downloading would be gone.  If you don't
> want to wait for the download to finish, just click Disconnect, then use
> Passageways or /connect or whatever to go back to your previous room.  Then
> the "End Download" button could be disabled for room downloads, but you
> still don't get stuck.
>
> To make moving forward and backward between rooms easier in this case,
> maybe a "Room History" pulldown would help.  Then you could browse through
> all your previously visited rooms by their title and/or server:port, and
> jump to them easily.  I'll take a stab at implementing this over the
> weekend.
>
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