indicator

= Indicator Display activity with ASCII spinners and progress indicators.

= Description Sometimes you need to display activity on the text console to inform the user that the program is actually doing something. Be funny with a lot predefined sets or make you own widget to display an animation text during a long-running process in your console app.

=Installation ==From the command line. gem install indicator

==Using Gemfile.

1 Add to your application Gemfile gem 'indicator'

2 Type bundle install

=Usage ==Animated

Indicator::spin do 10.times do sleep 0.5 end end

==On demand update

Indicator::spin(:ondemand => true) do |spinner| 10.times do spinner.spinning sleep 0.2 end end

==Manual control

spinner = Indicator.spinner 10.times do spinner.spinning sleep 0.2 end spinner.clean

==Predefined sets Indicator::spin :set => :p do 10.times do sleep 0.5 end end

Available sets: :x :< :> :V :dots :bars :p :bqpd :-

UNICODE extra sets: :arrows :box :braile

==Custom set Indicator::spin :frames => %w{ * + } do 10.times do sleep 0.5 end end

=Advanced usage ===Using count Use int method to increment percent

Indicator::spin :count => 20 do |spin| 10.times do spin.inc 2 sleep 0.2 end end

Default increment is 1.

===Using count, pre-text and post-text Indicator::spin :pre => "Work", :frames => [' ', '. ', '.. ', '...'], :count => 10, :post => ' in progress' do |spin| 10.times do spin.inc sleep 0.2 end spin.clear end

:pre_percent and :post_percent is also available.

===Change post-text Indicator::spin :pre => "Work", :frames => [' ', '. ', '.. ', '...'], :count => 10 do |spin| 10.times do |i| spin.inc spin.post= " in progress #{i} of 10" sleep 0.2 end end