Hi everyone, I have a question. I try actually to make a spinner similar to the candy feature of emerge for who know Gentoo Linux. I almost done it, but I don’t get how to delete previous/next character without moving the cursor. These are the functions use to do this animation actually in my proje…

I find how to do ah ah def playCalculationAnimation(@text = ISM::Default::CommandLine::CalculationWaitingText) currentTime = Time.monotonic if (currentTime - @calculationStartingTime).milliseconds > 40 if @frameIndex == @text.size && !@reverseAnimation …

You can use GitHub - crystal-term/spinner: A terminal spinner for tasks that have a non-deterministic time frame (or some other spinner shards out there) or at least look at the code.

Hi @Fulgurance I’m not familiar with Gentoo Linux or the candy feature of emerge, so I might not be the best person to answer. However, how to delete previous/next character without moving the cursor. I don’t think it is actually possible to delete a character without moving the cursor. In prac…

@Fulgurance I played around with a few different examples here: GitHub - mgomes/progress_bar: CLI progress bar library for Crystal . Might give you some ideas.

Make cli spinner like emerge (gentoo linux) with candy

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Fulgurance September 16, 2024, 8:19pm 5

I did a gif of the animation I try to do to make you understand :

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So how can I do that ?

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Make cli spinner like emerge (gentoo linux) with candy

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