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

[Cruise <cruise@openverse.org>]

Room downloads are now cancelable and kaos's check code will cause the exit to
another room to be allowed..

(in th enext version)


On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> 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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