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grispyg

Fri Jan 09, 2004 7:40 pm


simple Progress bar

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When I just started turing ma teacher showed me this program and there was this progress bar in it. I had no clue how to do it.. so i devoted a lot  of my time to figuring it out and i finally did..:D  :lol: 

%Grispy
%December 9 03
%Simple Progress Bar
colorback (black)
color (white)
cls

for i : 0 .. 300
    drawbox (170 + i, 40, 170, 20, white)%Play around wit da numbers
    delay (20)
    locate (22, 40)
    put i div 3, "%"
end for



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DanShadow

Fri Jan 09, 2004 7:54 pm



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heh, I used to use that all the time..except I made it slightly more colorful:

Draw.FillBox (0, 0, maxx, maxy, 255)
colorback (255)
color (10)
var zz : int := 1
for i : 1 .. 100
    delay (50)
    Draw.FillBox (100, 15, 100 + zz, 25, 54)
    Draw.Box (100, 15, 200, 25, 1)
    zz := zz + 1
    locate (23, 13)
    put "Loading... ", zz, "%" ..
end for
locate (23, 13)
put "Done Loading!   " ..



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Tony

Fri Jan 09, 2004 10:23 pm



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:cry:

I cannot stress enough how lame and newbish it is to have a FAKE loading bar just for the heck of having it :roll: It is just wrong on so many levels....


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santabruzer

Fri Jan 09, 2004 10:26 pm



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hey.. if people enjoy it.. you can't stop them :P.... besides.. it makes your program have more "source" code.... by the loading time


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Tony

Fri Jan 09, 2004 10:28 pm



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haha :lol: more source code? If you want extra lines in the file, why not just copy/paste a bunch of random functions you not gonna use?  :lol:


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shorthair

Fri Jan 09, 2004 10:51 pm



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better yet write your programs in machine code , im talkin like a 100 line program = 10000 lines in machine , could you imagine what it would be liek to code in taht language way back when


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AsianSensation

Fri Jan 09, 2004 10:52 pm



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haha :lol: more source code? If you want extra lines in the file, why not just copy/paste a bunch of random functions you not gonna use?  :lol:

actually, just declare 200 lines worth of pictures, and you are all set. :wink:  It will be even better if you declare individual letter of a certain font saved as pics...52 pics per font, oh wait, assuming we don't know how to scale pics either, we can always make a bunch that are bigger or smaller in size... :lol:


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McKenzie

Fri Jan 09, 2004 11:07 pm



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progress bars are used to tell the user that "no, your computer is not frozen I'm just loading a whole bunch of pictures"
Moral of the Day:
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1. If your program looks like it has crashed the computer when you run it, hey use a progress bar.

2. If your program runs at about the same time you hit F1, don't use a progress bar.


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shorthair

Tue Jan 13, 2004 7:06 pm



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Wow Mr M. your rackin in the bits ther , you better save those for a rainy day. and about the progress bad i belive in what Mr.M says but i have no love for them , i made a real one buit mostr of the time unless your doing somthign else it just goes from 0 to 100 really fast , only a trace shows it , i also have one while my telnet verifies the stability of the connection. it even goes back to zero sometime for some reason i think its if well im sure its when athe loop is runa second time if the first fails.


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jedi-bob

Mon Jan 19, 2004 3:26 pm



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Dan Shadow, can I use your progress bar in my program?


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Tony

Mon Jan 19, 2004 5:26 pm



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well the idea is that you can use anything from the [Source Code] as long as you give appropriate credit someplace in your program.

btw - you can use my percent bar :wink: [url=http://www.compsci.ca/v2/viewtopic.php?t=671]found here