Are there any text-based progress bar implementations?

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I'm trying to create a terminal-based backup program and I'm looking for some C++ code that creates a text-based progress bar. I understand you can implement it yourself with \b but I thought I'd see if there is any well-built implementations already. My favourite implementation of a text-based progress bar is pacman's progress bar on arch linux.

My project is created with C++ (Qt4).

try ncurses that's a really good library for this, not sure if it has the exact type of bar you want — Jesus Ramos, Aug 05 '11 at 02:12
@Jesus Ramos, I'm not sure about ncurses; once you use it a small amount, your entire project is an ncurses project. It doesn't co-exist well with std input's and output's — Will03uk, Aug 05 '11 at 02:18

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 05 '11 at 02:13

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The Boost Timer library has a progress timer display.

answered Aug 05 '11 at 02:13

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It looks promising, but a progress bar that could fit on one line with possibly a label would be perfect; It's good but for many different bars, can be a bit much – Will03uk Aug 05 '11 at 02:26
That library is deprecated. – Martin Ueding May 13 '14 at 11:23

Are there any text-based progress bar implementations?

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