Progress Bar

Display a colourful Progress Bar with text.

The Progress Bar can be used to display the progress of a Read, Write or Net operation. It may look like this:

Reading from cache 34/125 (27%)

The Progress Bar can be used in three ways, depending on what's expected.

• Unknown amount of data
  • Call progress_new(0)
  • Call progress_update(n,-1) – records/bytes so far
• Fixed number of records/bytes
  • Call progress_new(n) – number of records/bytes
  • Call progress_update(n,-1) – records/bytes so far
• Percentage
  • Call progress_new(0)
  • Call progress_update(n,pc) – records/bytes so far, percentage

The frequency of screen updates can be configured. For each variable, a value of 0 means show every update.

• $net_inc – Update after this many KB sent/received
• $read_inc – Update after this many records read
• $write_inc – Update after this many records written

Additionally,

• $time_inc - Frequency of progress bar updates (milliseconds)

File	Description
progress/progress.c	Progress Bar
progress/wdata.c	Progress Bar Window Data
progress/window.c	Progress Bar Window