From: Yaser Sulaiman <yaserbuntu@...>
Date: 2008-11-05T05:12:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Showing a spinner ?

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Well, when I remove STDOUT.flush, the spinner doesn't show at all, and I
only get:
..50.
..100.
..150.
..200.
[etc.]
with a 5-second "pause" at the beginning of each line.

I wonder if this behavior is somehow related to the OS (Ubuntu in my case).

Regards,
Yaser Sulaiman

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Aldric Giacomoni <aldric@trevoke.net>wrote:

> The STDOUT.flush makes it seem frozen in time - not my idea of a
> spinner! ;-) Still, thanks for showing me this, I've now got quite a bit
> more that I can learn about :)
>
> --Aldric
>
> Yaser Sulaiman wrote:
> > [Note:  parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]
> >
> > I think a STDOUT.flush is needed after the second print "\b" to make it
> work
> > properly.
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:22 PM, Rodrigo Bermejo
> > <rodrigo.bermejo@ps.ge.com>wrote:
> >
>
>

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