elegant progressbars for a more civilized age

Because yay progress!

Offers progressbars to be used in command-line applications, to give a little bit of eye-candy to the waiting user.

This is a header-only library that will use C++11 features (some progressbars offer a legacy-variant, which is very nice of them).

Installation

###Manual### Just put the folder lib/elegant-progressbars in a place where your compiler will find it when searching for libraries to include.

You can use doxygen to get a nice documentation:

doxygen Doxyfile
firefox doc/html/index.html

###CMake Supported###

Clone the project to some local path and add the following line to your CMakeLists.txt:

find_package(elegant-progressbars PATHS "<ABSOLUTE-PATH-TO-ELEGANT-PROGRESSBAR>/cmake")

Example

There is an example which can be compiled and tested:

###Dependencies

• cmake >= 3.0.2
• clang >= 3.4 or gcc >= 4.8.2

###Build:

git clone https://github.com/slizzered/elegant-progressbars-for-a-more-civilized-age.git
cd elegant-progressbars-for-a-more-civilized-age
cmake .
make ProgressBarExample
./ProgressBarExample

Usage

There are currently 2 different kinds of progressbars. First, the traditional preconfigured progressbars (including the legacy-progressbars that work with older C++ compilers. Generally, usage is straightforward but might be enhanced by different (template) parameters:

using namespace ElegantProgressbars;

// call one of those in a loop that iterates until maxElement

std::cerr << fancyProgressBarLegacy(maxElement);
std::cerr << fancyProgressBar(maxElement);
std::cerr << fancyProgressBar<true>(maxElement);
std::cerr << fancyProgressBar<false, 80>(maxElement, currentElement);

If you desire more flexibility, the new style of progressbars is implemented as a policy based design and currently consists of a single function that can be configured with different output policies. Each of those policies contributes to the output in its own way, so it becomes possible customize a progressbar and even extend it with own policies. Each of those policies might be configured through additional template arguments:

using namespace ElegantProgressbars;

// call this one in a loop that iterates until maxElement
std::cerr << policyProgressbar<Hourglass, Label, Pattern<>, Percentage, Time<> >(maxElement);

result:

          #############      
          #           #      
           #         #       
             #     #         
               ###           
                #            
               #.#           
             #######         
           ###########       
          #############      
          #############      
                             
                             
Progress: [¤º°`°º¤ø,¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸,ø¤º] 100% (1000/1000) after 6s (6s total, 0s remaining)

License

Copyright (c) 2014 Carlchristian Eckert
Licensed under the MIT license.
Free as in beer.