Re: [PATCH] progress output in svn up

On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 08:52:54AM -0500, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> The other problem here is UI -- I'm not so sure it's a good idea to
> print download percentages on a series of new lines. The output of
> 'svn co/up' is very specific and very parseable -- one file per line.
> I think the least invasive thing to do is have main.c's callback use
> something like the curses library. It can repeatedly print progress
> information on the same line. I'm not sure how portable curses is,
> though. :-(

You don't need to use curses, just use \r. e.g.,

  printf (" 0%%");
  fflush (stdout);
  ...
  printf ("\r %2d%%", percentage);
  fflush (stdout);
  ...
  printf ("\r100%%\n");

Matt

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Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.cmu.edu>
Debian GNU/Linux Peon
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