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Some way to draw decent progress bars #1182

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tonsky opened this issue Jan 16, 2021 · 5 comments
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Some way to draw decent progress bars #1182

tonsky opened this issue Jan 16, 2021 · 5 comments
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@tonsky
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tonsky commented Jan 16, 2021

Placed in private use area U+EE00 .. U+EE05

Doesn’t seem to conflict with:

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Vampire commented Apr 26, 2023

The release notes somehow made me think that the ASCII progress bars will be replaced automatically with the FC progress bar, is that wrong?
How is this supposed to be used then?
A software drawing a progress bar does not know which font is used to draw.
So would it need some configuration switch to tell it to use those characters to draw the progress bar, or how would this work?

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tonsky commented Apr 27, 2023

I hope other fonts will adopt this convention and eventually we’ll be able to show progressbars this way in any font

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Vampire commented Apr 27, 2023

So indeed the application would need to use those characters explicitly, right?
I thought you might automatically replace them like you replace arbitrary length arrows now and so on.

Which btw. looks a little bit strange for Gradle progress bars now :-D
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I hope other fonts will adopt this convention and eventually we’ll be able to show progressbars this way in any font

I have three fonts with these characters:

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and, yes, the code to construct progress bars and spinners using font glyphs is written by some application (which - of course - has to "know" that a compatible font is available).

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qm3ster commented Sep 10, 2023

A bit unexpected you didn't go with sub-character sizes (at least half-full) to increase progress bar resolution.

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