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Name

progress - write progress strings

Synopsis


#include <stdinc.h>
int progress(double dcpusec, string format, ... )

Description

progress optionally prints out a user-controlled formatted string to stderr, automatically terminated with the carriage-return (\r) symbol, so it overwrites the previous string. The return value if set to 1 if progress should be reported. If the format string is set to 0, no output is done.

It is the users control to make sure the string length does not descrease, since pieces of the previous string would still be visible. This means a string like 

    progress(0.0,"Done %d/%d",i,n);
is not a good idea if is decreasing, and it would be better to write 
    progress(0.0,"Done %3d/%d",i,n);
instead.

There are currently two ways to call progress, by cpu time used, e.g. 

    do {
        progress(10.0,"Working on line %3d",n);
    n = do_something();
    } while (n>0);
or under full control of the user, as show in this example: 
    while (n-- > 0) {
        if (n%100) progress(0.0,"Still %3d to go",n);
    do_something();
    }
You can also use progress to take your own actions: 
    do {
        if (progress(10.0,0)) 
      dprintf(1,"Working on line %3dr",n);
    n = do_something();
    } while (n>0);

See Also

dprintf(3NEMO) , warning(3NEMO) ,

Author

Peter Teuben

History


30-jun-04    created     PJT
1-nov-04    changed return type from void to int    PJT

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