So I'm working on a command line interface in the web. Currently, there is the start of a progress bar on the left of the CLI, and a few commands that work. I want to add more commands, but I felt that they needed to have a time delay feature to make it feel more authentic.
I want to make a function that, when called, will divide the (ms) used in the scenario by 12 (the number of dashes in the progress bar) and display an update every (ms).
The Progress bar looks something like this: [------------]
https://codepen.io/ZacV/pen/abEYpLz
function statsBar(ms){
var timeChunk = Math.round(ms/12)
for (let i = 0; i < timeChunk; i++) {
document.getElementById("DispStatus").innerHTML = "[" + ("|" * timeChunk) + ("-" * (12 - timeChunk)) + "]"
sleep(timeChunk);
}
}
Ok. After a bit of trial and error, I found the most efficient way to finish Rocky Sims snippet. Rocky Sims' code created a really nice and efficient progress bar, however the size of the bar was inconsistent. This final product includes a progress bar with a consistent width to match with the width of the div. Thanks for all of your guys' help on this!
function statsBar(ms){
var timeChunk = Math.round(ms/12);
for (let i = 0; i <= 12; i++) {
setTimeout(() => {
document.getElementById("DispStatus").innerHTML = "[" + ('|'.repeat(i)) + ('-'.repeat(12 - i)) + "]";
}, i * timeChunk);
}
}
statsBar(6000);
<div id="DispStatus"></div>
You can use setTimeout to schedule updates to the progress bar all at once but have them happen over time.
function statsBar(ms){
var timeChunk = Math.round(ms/12);
for (let i = 0; i < 12; i++) {
setTimeout(() => {
document.getElementById("DispStatus").innerHTML = "[" + ('-'.repeat(i)) + "]";
}, i * timeChunk);
}
}
statsBar(6000);<div id="DispStatus"></div>