progressbar

Simple, efficient, and user friendly replacement for waitbar.
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Updated 8 Oct 2010

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Editor's Note: This file was selected as MATLAB Central Pick of the Week

This implementation of progressbar is intended to be extremely simple to use while providing a high quality user experience.

Features:
- Can add progressbar to existing m-files with a single line of code.
- Supports multiple bars in one figure to show progress of nested loops.
- Optional labels on bars.
- Figure closes automatically when task is complete.
- Only one figure can exist so old figures don't clutter the desktop.
- Remaining time estimate is accurate even if the figure gets closed.
- Minimal execution time. Won't slow down code.
- Randomized color. When a programmer gets bored...

Demo:
n = 1000;
progressbar % Create figure and set starting time
for i = 1:n
pause(0.01) % Do something important
progressbar(i/n) % Update figure
end

Cite As

Steve Hoelzer (2024). progressbar (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/6922-progressbar), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

MATLAB Release Compatibility
Created with R2010a
Compatible with any release
Platform Compatibility
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Version Published Release Notes
1.2.0.0

Major overhaul to support multiple bars and add labels.

1.1.0.0

Major overhaul to support multiple bars and add labels.

1.0.0.0