pacman style progress bar

I fail to make a pacman style progress bar with: pacman = standard_bar_factory(borders="[]", tip=None, chars="Cc-", blank=" o")

It works sort of, but the dots move “away” from the “pacman”. Example:

[----------C  o  o  o  o  o  o  o  o  o  o]
[-----------C  o  o  o  o  o  o  o  o  o  ]
[------------C  o  o  o  o  o  o  o  o  o]

ideally the dots would stay in place, like this:

[----------C  o  o  o  o  o  o  o  o  o  o]
[----------c  o  o  o  o  o  o  o  o  o  o]
[-------------------------C  o  o  o  o]

The problem arises from how the padding (right part of the progress bar) is handled in bars.py. My idea would be using some module tricks to scroll the padding. There is probably a better way.

[FredBrockstedt]

Pacman is the official package manager for Arch Linux (similar to pip for python). Pacman has a easter egg, where the progress bar mimics pacman. There is also a joke, that you find out that someone uses Arch Linux, because they will tell you 😉

On 1. May 2020, at 17:36, Rogério Sampaio de Almeida [e-mail] wrote:

You’re welcome man! Thank you for the idea! I’ll let you know when it is available.

I didn’t get Arch Linux joke 🤔 I use macOS 😉

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[rsalmei]

Fixed that small python2 bug in #38.

Your PR #37 will still be open for a while, and will be the basis for the contrib feature, ok?

And I’ve enjoyed our chat, Thank you! 👍