The Progress Dialog shows the progress of the Plucker spider as it retrieves and updates the desired channels.
The top of the dialog shows two progress guages. The uppermost progress gauge indicates the number of channels completed thus far. For example if 4 channels are being updated in this session, and 1 is complete so far, the gauge will be at 25 percent. The lowermost progress gauge shows the number of files thus far retrieved for the channel that is currently being updated.
On the right side of the dialog, there is 3 buttons: Stop, Details, and Export Details. Stop aborts the current spidering job. Details toggles between showing and hiding the details box. Export Details writes the current contents of the details box to a specified text file.
The details textbox logs the messages sent from the spider as it does its task of updating the channels. The verbosity of the messages can be set in the Preferences Dialog. If verbosity was set to minimal, for this channel then the lower gauge will be removed from the progress dialog.
You can call up a context sensitive popup menu with the mouse by right-clicking inside the details box. There are three options in the popup menu: Copy selected copies the selected rows of the details box to the clipboard, Clear all clears the details listbox, and Select all selects all the rows of the details box, ready to then be copied.
Beginner tip: If you have a question about Plucker, you can copy the relevant text from the details box, and paste it into an email to the Plucker mailing lists, to describe your problem when asking for help.
If you specified in the Preferences Dialog that you wished the progress dialog to never automatically close on completion, the Stop button will change its label to an OK button and wait for you to press OK before it closes. If you specified that you wished to "always close", or "close if no errors", then it will do so.
Power user tip: On GTK, the scroll history is currently 2000 lines, since that is the maximum number of lines that a GTK listbox can contain at one time.