Re: Progress bars (WAS: performance loading a subfile) -- RPG400-L

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> I was thinking along the idea of loading every element of the array with
> x'21' and then just clearing them left to right as the xx% increased, with
> fancy foot work around the middle of the bar for the number, or moving the
> number off the bar all together because there was some eye conflict as the
> number moved about on your demo.

Wouldn't work -- the x'21' character itself looks like a blank, so a bar
full of x'21' characters would just look black.  It's just as easy to
rebuild the whole bar every time, anyway.

--
Paul


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