Please wait... [was: Perl - Blinking Text]
From Ilmari Karonen <ilt...@sci.invalid>
· alt.ascii-art.animation
· 24 Aug 2000 00:00 · View full thread
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In article <spi...@corp.supernews.com>, Greg Bacon wrote: >In article <200...@ng-ch1.aol.com>, > Louis <lou...@aol.com> wrote: >: Hi. While my perl script is processing, I would like the print line >: "Please wait, processing data .. " to blink at the command line >: (UNIX). Does anyone know how I can get the text to blink? > >Yuck. Just say no. How about a spinner? Twirling batons are rather cliche, though. If you're going to have your users staring at a "please wait" message, the least you could do is make it a little bit interesting. perl -e '$|=1; print "\rPlease wait", grep tr/01/ ./ => unpack "b*" => pack "v" => $i while ++$i and sleep 1' perl -e '$|=1; print "\rPlease wait", grep tr/01/ ./ => unpack "b*" => pack "v" => $i^$i/2 while ++$i and sleep 1' Here are two I came up with right now - I can't decide which one I like more. All it takes is a bit of creativity. [Crossposted from comp.lang.perl.misc to alt.ascii-art.animation.] -- Ilmari Karonen - http://www.sci.fi/~iltzu/ Please ignore Godzilla | "By promoting postconditions to and its pseudonyms - | preconditions, algorithms become do not feed the troll. | remarkably simple." -- Abigail
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