Just a Progress Bar

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Program to create (and automatically center) a progress bar.
Created to be customizable and can be be used in any project.

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Source Code

Code: Lua

1. -- Define or alias values using a table. I'm using strings for this example.
2. local barTable = {"val1","val2","val3","val4","val5"}
3.  
4. local termWidth, termHeight = term.getSize()
5.  
6. -- All customizable values.
7. local barWidth = math.floor(termWidth*.75)
8. local fullChar = " "
9. local emptyChar = "\143"
10. local bg = "f"
11. local fg = "0"
12.  
13. -- Draws the empty progress bar.
14. local mouseX, mouseY = term.getCursorPos()
15. term.setCursorPos(termWidth/2-barWidth/2, mouseY)
16. term.blit(emptyChar:rep(barWidth), bg:rep(barWidth), fg:rep(barWidth))
17.  
18. -- Iterates through the table and performs an action.
19. for key, value in pairs(barTable) do
20.     os.sleep(1)
21.  
22. -- Draws 'full characters' to the progress bar as the action finishes.
23.     term.setCursorPos(termWidth/2-barWidth/2, mouseY)
24.     term.blit(fullChar:rep(math.floor(i / #table * barWidth)), bg:rep(math.floor(i / #table * barWidth)), fg:rep(math.floor(i / #table * barWidth)))
25. end
26.  
27. print(" Done!")
28. -- For this example, the program will end once any key is pressed.
29. os.pullEvent( "key" )