ETA as Input (Feature)

I may have missed it, but I haven’t been able to find this functionality in main or 2.0.

We have a case where we have a long single step (HTTP post). Currently in main I’m trying an unknown spinner, and adding the title “ETA 50seconds”. It would be great to input an ETA like: with alive_bar(eta=50,...) as bar:

[TheTechRobo]

That makes sense, since sometimes you don’t want alive-progress to handle it, and also unknown mode can still work with it, for example if it is searching through directories, it might be done 90% of the changes and you can assume that it is only a small amount of time left (relatively), and so even in unknown mode ETA can be useful. Agree fully!

[rsalmei]

I don’t see any problem in calling bar() multiple times. Remember this is the way to make the bar go forward. I think it’d be very weird to make a progress bar update itself automatically. Any progress bar change should always be a response from an active call by the user.

In your case, I’d create a background thread, and display a cool alive-progress being updated every second. You could use the definite mode as usual, and increment it until the desired time, or even better, you could use the manual mode to make it backward from 50 to 0, clearly indicating to the user it is the expected time remaining!

Can’t make much more than this man. Hope it works! 👍