Re: CL progress bar

On 29 August 2011 22:04, Timothy Adair <tadair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Has anyone found a way to do a simple progress bar in CL?  I have a
long-running interactive CL (please don't ask why) and I want to keep the
user informed of the progress.  It could be a bar, or just a simple percent
count-up.  I've searched the archives and the only thing I found was Booth
Martin's RPG progress bar.  A neat piece of work but it doesn't fit my
needs.  I'm currently using ten SNDPGMMSG commands (10%, 20%, etc.)
sprinkled throughout the code.  Clunky, but somewhat functional.

Maybe I'm dreaming but...
If CL issues (or receives) a return code for every command executed, is
there a way to trigger something after each command, regardless of the
return code?  Pretty vague, I know.  Sorry about that.

As always, any and all responses are appreciated.

Hi Timothy

I use this progress meter -
http://www.dbg400.net/foswiki/bin/view/DBG400/ProgressMeter - in a lot
of my utilities. Normally you'd run it after a block of records had
been processed, but you could just bump up the percentage complete
each time you reached the next milestone in your program. There is a
CL example with the download code.

Regards, Martin