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Thread-safe progress bars and spinners
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Single-header version in single_include/indicators.
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Basic Progress bar

To introduce a progress bar in your application, include indicators/progress_bar.hpp and create a ProgressBar object. Here's the general structure of a progress bar:

{prefix} {start} {fill} {lead} {remaining} {end} {percentage} [{elapsed}<{remaining}] {postfix}
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Bar Width ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The amount of progress in ProgressBar is maintained as a size_t in range [0, 100]. When progress reaches 100, the progression is complete.

From application-level code, there are two ways in which you can update this progress:

Update progress using `bar.tick()`

You can update the progress bar using bar.tick() which increments progress by exactly 1%.

#include <indicators/progress_bar.hpp>
#include <thread>
#include <chrono>

int main() {
  using namespace indicators;
  ProgressBar bar{
    option::BarWidth{50},
    option::Start{"["},
    option::Fill{"="},
    option::Lead{">"},
    option::Remainder{" "},
    option::End{"]"},
    option::PostfixText{"Extracting Archive"},
    option::ForegroundColor{Color::green},
    option::ShowPercentage{true},
    option::FontStyles{std::vector<FontStyle>{FontStyle::bold}}
  };
  
  // Update bar state
  while (true) {
    bar.tick();
    if (bar.is_completed())
      break;
    std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(100));
  }

  return 0;
}

The above code will print a progress bar that goes from 0 to 100% at the rate of 1% every 100 ms.

Updating progress using `bar.set_progress(value)`

If you'd rather control progress of the bar in discrete steps, consider using bar.set_progress(value). Example:

#include <chrono>
#include <indicators/cursor_control.hpp>
#include <indicators/progress_bar.hpp>
#include <thread>

int main() {
  using namespace indicators;

  // Hide cursor
  show_console_cursor(false);

  ProgressBar bar{
    option::BarWidth{50},
    option::Start{"["},
    option::Fill{"■"},
    option::Lead{"■"},
    option::Remainder{"-"},
    option::End{" ]"},
    option::PostfixText{"Loading dependency 1/4"},
    option::ForegroundColor{Color::cyan},
    option::ShowPercentage{true},
    option::FontStyles{std::vector<FontStyle>{FontStyle::bold}}  };

  // Update bar state
  bar.set_progress(10); // 10% done

  // do some work
  std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(800));

  bar.set_option(option::PostfixText{"Loading dependency 2/4"});  

  bar.set_progress(30); // 30% done

  // do some more work
  std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(700));

  bar.set_option(option::PostfixText{"Loading dependency 3/4"});  

  bar.set_progress(65); // 65% done

  // do final bit of work
  std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(900));

  bar.set_option(option::PostfixText{"Loaded dependencies!"});

  bar.set_progress(100); // all done

  // Show cursor
  show_console_cursor(true);

  return 0;
}

Showing Time Elapsed/Remaining

All progress bars and spinners in indicators support showing time elapsed and time remaining. Inspired by python's tqdm module, the format of this meter is [{elapsed}<{remaining}]:

#include <chrono>
#include <indicators/cursor_control.hpp>
#include <indicators/progress_bar.hpp>
#include <thread>

int main() {
  using namespace indicators;

  // Hide cursor
  show_console_cursor(false);

  indicators::ProgressBar bar{
    option::BarWidth{50},
    option::Start{" ["},
    option::Fill{"█"},
    option::Lead{"█"},
    option::Remainder{"-"},
    option::End{"]"},
    option::PrefixText{"Training Gaze Network 👀"},
    option::ForegroundColor{Color::yellow},
    option::ShowPercentage{true},
    option::ShowElapsedTime{true},
    option::ShowRemainingTime{true},
    option::FontStyles{std::vector<FontStyle>{FontStyle::bold}}
  };

  // Update bar state
  while (true) {
    bar.tick();
    if (bar.is_completed())
      break;
    std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(1000));
  }

  // Show cursor
  show_console_cursor(true);

  return 0;
}

Indeterminate Progress Bar

You might have a use-case for a progress bar where the maximum amount of progress is unknown, e.g., you're downloading from a remote server that isn't advertising the total bytes.

Use an indicators::IndeterminateProgressBar for such cases. An IndeterminateProgressBar is similar to a regular progress bar except the total amount to progress towards is unknown. Ticking on this progress bar will happily run forever.

When you know progress is complete, simply call bar.mark_as_completed().

#include <chrono>
#include <indicators/indeterminate_progress_bar.hpp>
#include <indicators/cursor_control.hpp>
#include <indicators/termcolor.hpp>
#include <thread>

int main() {
  indicators::IndeterminateProgressBar bar{
      indicators::option::BarWidth{40},
      indicators::option::Start{"["},
      indicators::option::Fill{"·"},
      indicators::option::Lead{"<==>"},
      indicators::option::End{"]"},
      indicators::option::PostfixText{"Checking for Updates"},
      indicators::option::ForegroundColor{indicators::Color::yellow},
      indicators::option::FontStyles{
          std::vector<indicators::FontStyle>{indicators::FontStyle::bold}}
  };

  indicators::show_console_cursor(false);

  auto job = [&bar]() {
    std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(10000));
    bar.mark_as_completed();
    std::cout << termcolor::bold << termcolor::green 
        << "System is up to date!\n" << termcolor::reset;
  };
  std::thread job_completion_thread(job);

  // Update bar state
  while (!bar.is_completed()) {
    bar.tick();
    std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(100));
  }

  job_completion_thread.join();
  
  indicators::show_console_cursor(true);  
  return 0;
}

Block Progress Bar

Are you in need of a smooth block progress bar using unicode block elements? Use BlockProgressBar instead of ProgressBar. Thanks to this blog post for making BlockProgressBar an easy addition to the library.

#include <indicators/block_progress_bar.hpp>
#include <indicators/cursor_control.hpp>
#include <thread>
#include <chrono>

int main() {

  using namespace indicators;

  // Hide cursor
  show_console_cursor(false);

  BlockProgressBar bar{
    option::BarWidth{80},
    option::Start{"["},
    option::End{"]"},
    option::ForegroundColor{Color::white}  ,
    option::ShowPercentage{true},
    option::FontStyles{std::vector<FontStyle>{FontStyle::bold}}
  };
  
  // Update bar state
  auto progress = 0.0f;
  while (true) {
    bar.set_progress(progress);
    progress += 0.25f;
    if (bar.is_completed())
      break;
    std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(50));
  }

  // Show cursor
  show_console_cursor(true);

  return 0;
}

MultiProgress

indicators supports management of multiple progress bars with the MultiProgress class template.

template <typename Indicator, size_t count> class MultiProgress is a class template that holds references to multiple progress bars and provides a safe interface to update the state of each bar. MultiProgress works with both ProgressBar and BlockProgressBar classes.

Use this class if you know the number of progress bars to manage at compile time.

Below is an example MultiProgress object that manages three ProgressBar objects.

#include <indicators/multi_progress.hpp>
#include <indicators/progress_bar.hpp>

int main() {
  using namespace indicators;
  // Configure first progress bar
  ProgressBar bar1{
    option::BarWidth{50},
    option::Start{"["},
    option::Fill{"■"},
    option::Lead{"■"},
    option::Remainder{" "},
    option::End{" ]"},
    option::ForegroundColor{Color::yel

Indicators

Install / Use

README

Highlights

Table of Contents

Basic Progress bar

Update progress using `bar.tick()`

Updating progress using `bar.set_progress(value)`

Showing Time Elapsed/Remaining

Indeterminate Progress Bar

Block Progress Bar

MultiProgress

Indicators

Install / Use

README

Highlights

Table of Contents

Basic Progress bar

Update progress using bar.tick()

Updating progress using bar.set_progress(value)

Showing Time Elapsed/Remaining

Indeterminate Progress Bar

Block Progress Bar

MultiProgress

Update progress using `bar.tick()`

Updating progress using `bar.set_progress(value)`