>From googling, I know that Ant cannot display a progress bar on the console. I know about the <splash> task, but that's not the same. What I have in mind is something like Term::ProgressBar in Perl, which is nice, here's a (slightly edited) screenshot:
C:\ :: \dev\Perl\progressbar.pl 76% [================================================ ] http://search.cpan.org/dist/Term-ProgressBar/lib/Term/ProgressBar.pm That's cool for running stuff on the server and knowing that it'll be done in five minutes. Of course, you don't always know how long a task will take, but there are scenarios where it is absolutely possible to give a reasonable estimate. Batch processing 34567 XML files, for example. I know how many I've done, I know how many are left. My task would notify the embedded <progressbar/>, which has been initialized with @count = 34567, and update it each time around. Whenever the update makes a difference on the screen, the screen is also updated. Would that be very complicated to do in Ant? Michael Ludwig --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
