How do i implement a progress message that looks like this:
[------------- ]60%
In a windows 32 console application. I am using visual studio 8 for development. I am sure yall must have had to do it sometime, I just couldnt find the code anywhere. Thanks in advance
Example:
Code:printf("\r[%*s]%d", number_of_dashes, array_holding_a_bunch_of_dashes, percentage);
Last edited by master5001; 09-19-2008 at 02:38 PM. Reason: Just for you, C_ntua
Of course adding the " missing from the above. And you will need the symbol % at the end since you want percentage.Originally Posted by master5001
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...66(VS.71).aspx
So it will not cut the stringThe width argument is a nonnegative decimal integer controlling the minimum number of characters printed.
If you want to cut the string printing only part of it - use precision http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...14(VS.71).aspx
s format - The precision specifies the maximum number of characters to be printed. Characters in excess of precision are not printed.
All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection,
except for the problem of too many layers of indirection.
– David J. Wheeler
You should do something more like this...
Example:
Code:const char dashes[] = "----------"; const char blanks[] = " "; float progress = 0.0f; printf("\r[%*s%*s] %f%%", (int)((100.0 - progress)/10.0), dashes, (int)((100.0 - progress)/10.0), blanks, progress);
Last edited by master5001; 09-19-2008 at 02:40 PM.
you hanvn't tested it? Use precision instead of widthYou should do something more like this...
All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection,
except for the problem of too many layers of indirection.
– David J. Wheeler
Nope, I didn't test it since I am not even at my computer and he is a big boy... I am just trying to create the whole effect in one function call instead of a call to sprintf() and printf().
So you have to add the two dots
Oh cripes, I didn't even notice I had done that. I was wondering why vart was asking me that... heh... Copy and paste gone awry.
