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Rob Biedenharn:

> On Nov 22, 2008, at 8:18 PM, Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) wrote:

>> I want to track the progress of a set of
>> (forkoff) processes in a simple way. [¦Ý

>> print '.' * 25; (0...25).sort_by{rand}.each { |n| print "\r"; print "\c[[C" * n; print 'o'; sleep 0.5 }; print "\n"

> status='.'*25; print status; (0...25).sort_by{rand}.each{|n| status[n]='o'; 
> print "\r#{status}"; sleep(0.1+rand/10.0)};puts

A very good idea, but unfortunately it doesn work in a forkoff
block; every block gets its own copy of the original status and so
generates a line with 24 dots and one o:

shot@devielle:~$ irb -rubygems
>> require 'forkoff'
=> true
>> status='.'*25; print status; (0...25).sort_by{rand}.forkoff{|n| status[n]='o'; print "\r#{status}"; sleep(0.1+rand/10.0)};puts
..................o......
=> nil

Hence my need for a right arrow, or for printing a ransparentcharacter that doesn¡Çt overwrite what¡Çs already under the cursor.

> You could, perhaps, add a clear-to-EOL sequence, too.

I¡Çm sorry, but I¡Çm a bit braindead today; where would I want to use
this? (And, when we¡Çre at it, what¡Çs the escape sentence for it?)

Thanks a lot for your interest in this thread and your reply!

-- Shot
-- 
A distributed system is one in which I cannot get something done because
a machine I've never heard of is down.                 -- Leslie Lamport

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