Nick's Loading Bar

Description

This is a pretty simple idea I had. I thought I'd find a way to use memset() so this makes for a very useful demonstration. Type "q" to quit or "function" to see the loading bar in action.

Here's the beef of the program:

• includes a char[] for the loading bar with a max size of 50
• includes a function setProgress() which takes a certain percentage that you want to fill the bar (50%, 100%, etc. written as setProgress(50))
  • the function fills the char[] loadBar with int barSize for however big you want the bar to be
  • int index is used to fill the bar with '#' characters to represent completion
• uses a while loop to wait for q to quit, can type "function" to get the most updated version of the loading bar or "load" to see the less efficient, less working version (might remove)

Running/Compiling

It's just C++ code, all you need to do on Linux is to write g++ loadBar.cpp -o a.out in the terminal then ./a.out to run it. For Windows it should be way easier to plug it into an IDE like CodeBlocks and just use that to compile/run.