Re: [Vala] Downloading a file from the internet to some directory.

[Frederik <scumm_fredo gmx net>]

Arkadi Viner wrote:
> Hello every body.
>
> My program needs to download some file from the internet each time it
> starts,
> how to accomplish that mission?
>
> Is there a gtk librery to do it or i have to use the webkit library?
>
> Thanks.

Hi,

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void main () {
        var src = File.new_for_uri ("http://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.7/vala-0.7.6.tar.bz2";);
        var dst = File.new_for_path ("vala-0.7.6.tar.bz2");
        try {
                src.copy (dst, FileCopyFlags.NONE, null, null);
        } catch (Error e) {
                stderr.printf ("%s\n", e.message);
        }
}

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$ valac download.vala --pkg gio-2.0

Alternatively use 'copy_async()' for asynchronous copying.


Best regards,

Frederik