Many q's

[Janesh]

1: How do you get the prossesing bar in basic?? the bar you gewt when you install a software or any thing.
and how do you make the bar run for "X" Seconds ?

2: How do i make a box across text in basic other than something like:
PRINT "________________"
PRINT "| [Text] |"
PRINT"_________________"

[toonski84]

If you're in text mode, you have the entire dos character set at your disposal, which contains numerous box-making characters. Look in the QB help under 'ASCII character set' (qboho version don't display properly), and you'll find all the characters you need.

as for a display bar, if you're in text mode:

say you're copying 30 files, or loading 30 things or something. you can have two variables, filescopied and totalfiles, and do this -

Code:

locate bary, barx
for x = 0 to barlength * (filescopied / totalfiles)
  print chr$(219); ' I think that's the character for a solid bar
next x

but there's hundreds of thousands of millions of billions of ways to make a progress bar. that one just takes very little code

[Janesh]

what if you were to make a dummy progress bar
like, one which does no work..just keeps the user waiting ?

[Ruudboy]

in the qb help bring up the ASCII character codes. go to the second page and then just copy the ones you like and just do

print "?"
sleep 4
print "??"
? = your image thin from the ascii character codes

[Agamemnus]

what if you were to make a dummy progress bar
like, one which does no work..just keeps the user waiting ?

The user would get angry. Very angry...

[oracle]

QBNZ had a challenge compo to create a loading bar, and one of them was text mode. You can get the download of most of the entries from http://qbnz.com/pages/challenges/oldchallenges/0103.zip

[Janesh]

print "?"
sleep 4
print "??"

din quite get this