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Alex
Alex

Reputation: 503

C/C++, How do you code for the download progress thing in the CLI? Linux

Im looking to make program with a similar feature as the Download Progress Text with the arrow going across.. Example PIC is a reference to what im talking about.

Any libraries or designs with basic functions? Thanks for any help!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 259

Answers (3)

jxh
jxh

Reputation: 70472

If all you want is a progress bar for some data, you should check out pv. One way to use it is to simply pipe your data through the program. Here is a simple example below that just reads in a file using a call to pv with popen():

#include <stdio.h>

int main (int argc, char *argv[]) {
    char pv[1024];
    FILE *infile;
    if (argc > 1) {
        char c;
        snprintf(pv, sizeof(pv), "pv %s", argv[1]);
        infile = popen(pv, "r");
        while (fread(&c, 1, 1, infile)) {}
        pclose(infile);
    } else {
        puts("need a file name!");
    }
    return 0;
}

Upvotes: 0

kriomant
kriomant

Reputation: 2326

You may use boost::progress_display

Upvotes: 0

Jacob Pollack
Jacob Pollack

Reputation: 3761

The library you are looking for is ncurses. It can be found here.

Here is another resource I found for ncurses that may be useful to help introduce you to the library and its functionality. It's a series of Youtube tutorials -- his speaking is poor but from what I can tell (listening only to the first two videos) his examples are sufficiently well taught.

Upvotes: 1

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