RE: A whirleygig for a progress indicator for scripts

[btrott]

In that spirit, here's another idea for improving/generalizing your code.

    package Whirley;

    sub new {
        my $type = shift;
        my $class = ref $type || $type;

        my $WHIRLEY_COUNT = -1;
        my @whirley = map chr, qw/32 176 177 178 219 178 177 176/;

        my $self = sub {
            $WHIRLEY_COUNT = 0 if ++$WHIRLEY_COUNT == @whirley;
            return $whirley[$WHIRLEY_COUNT];
        };

        bless $self, $class;
    }

    package main;

    my $whirley = new Whirley;

    while (1) {
        sleep 1;
        print STDERR "please wait: ", $whirley->(), "\r";
    }

This packages up your whirley functionality into a package and a closure--you could even put it into Whirley.pm or something; then just use it and call it as illustrated.

[synistar]

Taking it one step further here is a repackage of btrott's version that takes an argument to choose from an array of weird spinners.

#   main
    my $whirley = Whirley->new(1);

    while (1) {
        sleep 1;
        print STDERR "please wait: ", $whirley->(), "\r";
    }

    package Whirley;
    sub new {
        my $type = shift;
        my $number = shift;
        my $class = ref $type || $type;

        my $WHIRLEY_COUNT = -1;
        my @whirleyhash = (
          [qw(- \ | / )],
          [map chr, qw/32 176 177 178 219 178 177 176/],
          [qw(>--- ->-- -->- ---> ---* --- ---< --<- -<-- <--- *---)],
          [qw(_o_ \o/  _O_ \O/)],
          [qw/. .o .oO .oO(zzz) .oO(ZZZ) /],
          [ '(^_^ )','( ^_^)'],
          [ '(^_^ )','( ^_^)','( -_-)', '(-_- )' ]
        );
        my @whirley = @{$whirleyhash[$number]};

        my $self = sub {
            $WHIRLEY_COUNT = 0 if ++$WHIRLEY_COUNT == @whirley;
            return $whirley[$WHIRLEY_COUNT];
        };

        bless $self, $class;
    }

[Wire64]

Is there anyway i can use Whirley with File::Copy ?

I want to show a progress meter (percentage) while moving a file.
I found http://www.perlmonks.org/?node=File%20copy%20progress. but that doesn't use File::Copy and dont know if it working for large files.
Or can i do something like;



my $sizetarget= (-s $destination); 
my $sizesource= (-s $source);
my $percentage="";

while (move($source,$destination) || print "$!\n") {
$sizetarget = (-s $destination);
$percentage = ($sizetarget / $sizesource)*100;
print "[$percentage\%]\r";
}

hmm nope that doesnt work.. anyways you get my point.
Hope anyone can give me an example or a hand :).
greets,
Wire64

[Corion]

No. From looking at the File::Copy source code, it provides no progress callback. You could try to override CORE::sysread and/or CORE::syswrite, which File::Copy uses in its inner loop. Or just do the progress based on the number of files.