- Thread-safe progress bars and spinners
- Header-only library. Grab a copy of
include/indicators
- Source for the above GIF can be found here
- MIT License
git clone https://github.com/p-ranav/indicators
cd indicators
mkdir build && cd build
cmake -DINDICATORS_SAMPLES=ON -DINDICATORS_DEMO=ON ..
make
- Progress Bar
- Block Progress Bar
- Multi Progress
- Dynamic Progress
- Progress Spinner
- Contributing
- License
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:
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}
};
// 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.
If you'd rather control progress of the bar in discrete steps, consider using bar.set_progress(value)
. Example:
#include <chrono>
#include <indicators/progress_bar.hpp>
#include <thread>
int main() {
// Hide cursor
std::cout << "\e[?25l";
using namespace indicators;
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}
};
// 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
bar.mark_as_completed();
// Show cursor
std::cout << "\e[?25h";
return 0;
}
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/progress_bar.hpp>
#include <thread>
int main() {
using namespace indicators;
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::ShowElapsedTime{true},
option::ShowRemainingTime{true}
};
// Update bar state
while (true) {
bar.tick();
if (bar.is_completed())
break;
std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(1000));
}
// Show cursor
std::cout << "\e[?25h";
return 0;
}
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 <thread>
#include <chrono>
int main() {
// Hide cursor
std::cout << "\e[?25l";
using namespace indicators;
BlockProgressBar bar{
option::BarWidth{80},
option::Start{"["},
option::End{"]"},
option::ForegroundColor{Color::white}
};
// 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
std::cout << "\e[?25h";
return 0;
}
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::yellow},
option::ShowElapsedTime{true},
option::ShowRemainingTime{true},
option::PrefixText{"Progress Bar #1 "}
};
// Configure second progress bar
ProgressBar bar2{
option::BarWidth{50},
option::Start{"["},
option::Fill{"="},
option::Lead{">"},
option::Remainder{" "},
option::End{" ]"},
option::ForegroundColor{Color::cyan},
option::ShowElapsedTime{true},
option::ShowRemainingTime{true},
option::PrefixText{"Progress Bar #2 "}
};
// Configure third progress bar
indicators::ProgressBar bar3{
option::BarWidth{50},
option::Start{"["},
option::Fill{"#"},
option::Lead{"#"},
option::Remainder{" "},
option::End{" ]"},
option::ForegroundColor{Color::red},
option::ShowElapsedTime{true},
option::ShowRemainingTime{true},
option::PrefixText{"Progress Bar #3 "}
};
// Construct MultiProgress object
indicators::MultiProgress<indicators::ProgressBar, 3> bars(bar1, bar2, bar3);
std::cout << "Multiple Progress Bars:\n";
auto job1 = [&bars]() {
while (true) {
bars.tick<0>();
if (bars.is_completed<0>())
break;
std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(100));
}
};
auto job2 = [&bars]() {
while (true) {
bars.tick<1>();
if (bars.is_completed<1>())
break;
std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(200));
}
};
auto job3 = [&bars]() {
while (true) {
bars.tick<2>();
if (bars.is_completed<2>())
break;
std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(60));
}
};
std::thread first_job(job1);
std::thread second_job(job2);
std::thread third_job(job3);
first_job.join();
second_job.join();
third_job.join();
return 0;
}
DynamicProgress
is a container class, similar to MultiProgress
, for managing multiple progress bars. As the name suggests, with DynamicProgress
, you can dynamically add new progress bars. Simply call bars.push_back
.
Use this class if you don't know the number of progress bars at compile time.
Below is an example DynamicProgress
object that manages six ProgressBar
objects. Three of these bars are added dynamically.
#include <indicators/dynamic_progress.hpp>
#include <indicators/progress_bar.hpp>
using namespace indicators;
int main() {
ProgressBar bar1{option::BarWidth{50}, option::ForegroundColor{Color::red},
option::ShowElapsedTime{true}, option::ShowRemainingTime{true},
option::PrefixText{"5c90d4a2d1a8: Downloading "}};
ProgressBar bar2{option::BarWidth{50}, option::ForegroundColor{Color::yellow},
option::ShowElapsedTime{true}, option::ShowRemainingTime{true},
option::PrefixText{"22337bfd13a9: Downloading "}};
ProgressBar bar3{option::BarWidth{50}, option::ForegroundColor{Color::green},
option::ShowElapsedTime{true}, option::ShowRemainingTime{true},
option::PrefixText{"10f26c680a34: Downloading "}};
ProgressBar bar4{option::BarWidth{50}, option::ForegroundColor{Color::white},
option::ShowElapsedTime{true}, option::ShowRemainingTime{true},
option::PrefixText{"6364e0d7a283: Downloading "}};
ProgressBar bar5{option::BarWidth{50}, option::ForegroundColor{Color::blue},
option::ShowElapsedTime{true}, option::ShowRemainingTime{true},
option::PrefixText{"ff1356ba118b: Downloading "}};
ProgressBar bar6{option::BarWidth{50}, option::ForegroundColor{Color::cyan},
option::ShowElapsedTime{true}, option::ShowRemainingTime{true},
option::PrefixText{"5a17453338b4: Downloading "}};
std::cout << termcolor::bold << termcolor::white << "Pulling image foo:bar/baz\n";
// Construct with 3 progress bars. We'll add 3 more at a later point
DynamicProgress<ProgressBar> bars(bar1, bar2, bar3);
// Do not hide bars when completed
bars.set_option(option::HideBarWhenComplete{false});
std::thread fourth_job, fifth_job, sixth_job;
auto job4 = [&bars](size_t i) {
while (true) {
bars[i].tick();
if (bars[i].is_completed()) {
bars[i].set_option(option::PrefixText{"6364e0d7a283: Pull complete "});
bars[i].mark_as_completed();
break;
}
std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(50));
}
};
auto job5 = [&bars](size_t i) {
while (true) {
bars[i].tick();
if (bars[i].is_completed()) {
bars[i].set_option(option::PrefixText{"ff1356ba118b: Pull complete "});
bars[i].mark_as_completed();
break;
}
std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(100));
}
};
auto job6 = [&bars](size_t i) {
while (true) {
bars[i].tick();
if (bars[i].is_completed()) {
bars[i].set_option(option::PrefixText{"5a17453338b4: Pull complete "});
bars[i].mark_as_completed();
break;
}
std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(40));
}
};
auto job1 = [&bars, &bar6, &sixth_job, &job6]() {
while (true) {
bars[0].tick();
if (bars[0].is_completed()) {
bars[0].set_option(option::PrefixText{"5c90d4a2d1a8: Pull complete "});
// bar1 is completed, adding bar6
auto i = bars.push_back(bar6);
sixth_job = std::thread(job6, i);
sixth_job.join();
break;
}
std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(140));
}
};
auto job2 = [&bars, &bar5, &fifth_job, &job5]() {
while (true) {
bars[1].tick();
if (bars[1].is_completed()) {
bars[1].set_option(option::PrefixText{"22337bfd13a9: Pull complete "});
// bar2 is completed, adding bar5
auto i = bars.push_back(bar5);
fifth_job = std::thread(job5, i);
fifth_job.join();
break;
}
std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(25));
}
};
auto job3 = [&bars, &bar4, &fourth_job, &job4]() {
while (true) {
bars[2].tick();
if (bars[2].is_completed()) {
bars[2].set_option(option::PrefixText{"10f26c680a34: Pull complete "});
// bar3 is completed, adding bar4
auto i = bars.push_back(bar4);
fourth_job = std::thread(job4, i);
fourth_job.join();
break;
}
std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(50));
}
};
std::thread first_job(job1);
std::thread second_job(job2);
std::thread third_job(job3);
third_job.join();
second_job.join();
first_job.join();
std::cout << termcolor::bold << termcolor::green << "✔ Downloaded image foo/bar:baz" << std::endl;
std::cout << termcolor::reset;
return 0;
}
In the above code, notice the option bars.set_option(option::HideBarWhenComplete{true});
. Yes, you can hide progress bars as and when they complete by setting this option to true
. If you do so, the above example will look like this:
To introduce a progress spinner in your application, include indicators/progress_spinner.hpp
and create a ProgressSpinner
object. Here's the general structure of a progress spinner:
{prefix} {spinner} {percentage} [{elapsed}<{remaining}] {postfix}
ProgressSpinner has a vector of strings: spinner_states
. At each update, the spinner will pick the next string from this sequence to print to the console. The spinner state can be updated similarly to ProgressBars: Using either tick()
or set_progress(value)
.
#include <indicators/progress_spinner.hpp>
int main() {
using namespace indicators;
indicators::ProgressSpinner spinner{
option::PostfixText{"Checking credentials"},
option::ForegroundColor{Color::yellow},
option::SpinnerStates{std::vector<std::string>{"⠈", "⠐", "⠠", "⢀", "⡀", "⠄", "⠂", "⠁"}}
};
// Update spinner state
auto job = [&spinner]() {
while (true) {
if (spinner.is_completed()) {
spinner.set_option(option::ForegroundColor{Color::green});
spinner.set_option(option::PrefixText{"✔"});
spinner.set_option(option::ShowSpinner{false});
spinner.set_option(option::ShowPercentage{false});
spinner.set_option(option::PostfixText{"Authenticated!"});
spinner.mark_as_completed();
break;
} else
spinner.tick();
std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(40));
}
};
std::thread thread(job);
thread.join();
return 0;
}
Contributions are welcome, have a look at the CONTRIBUTING.md document for more information.
The project is available under the MIT license.