progressbar

Simple, efficient, and user friendly replacement for waitbar.

Description

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.
  - The figure closes automatically when the task is complete.
  - Only one progressbar 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.
  - Random color and position options. 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

Acknowledgements

The author wishes to acknowledge the following in the creation of this submission:
progbar
This submission has inspired the following:
txtprogressbar, WORKBAR, Movie Editor

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 6.0 (R12)

[Alan Brooks]

Very simple to use and very efficient. I like the ability to use it in one line of code.

[jiro d]

very slick!

[Antoni Josep Canós Marín]

Very good!!. It should be included in future releases of MATLAB.

[Tim Faughn]

Fantastic!

[Ryan Scheppele]

Nifty little routine!

[Fred Plourde]

Very simple and yet, very efficient ! It took me less than 2 minutes to add it successfully to my project

[Jean-Vincent LE LAN]

 

[Michal Mackiewicz]

 

[Wolfgang Garn]

An interesting extension would be to start more than one progressbars.

[Liz Leibman]

Thank you! Its just perfect! Now my program looks so good!

[Wolfgang Garn]

It is really terrific. Thank you.
If you like to have two, three or more progressbars, just copy the m-file to progressbar2, progressbar3, ...

[Bharat Rangan]

Great work. Very useful little piece. A possible addition is the ability to add another string during inititation which could specify the task at hand. Just my 0.02. Thanks a ton

[Suhas Gajre]

One of the beautiful codes I have seen!

Very much useful for programmers like me who have to wait for agonizingly long time to finish the code :))

[Tom Nagel]

I love it. So easy, so helpful.

[Dave Douglas]

This thing is simple to use and looks fantastic. Thanks!!!

[Luis Aponte]

This function is great and very simple to use.

[Quintin Coetzee]

Thak you for this substitute for waitbar.
I will be using it in software I am developing for my 4th year engineering report.

[A L P]

Have problem with this function and plotting graph.
This is the error that appear:
>??? Invalid handle object.
>
>Error in ==> progressbar at 202
>set(progpatch,'XData',[0 fractiondone >fractiondone 0])
>
>Error in ==> Untitled at 17
> progressbar(inc/nbpt)

[Quan Quach]

I made some modifications to this great app and you can find it here. Added an abort functionality and an output parameter so that when the progress bar is closed, you can use the output parameter to break from the for loop.

http://www.blinkdagger.com/matlab/matlab-gui-tutorial-progress-status-bar

[Abel Brown]

lol, so simple and nice. makes ppl think you're awesome at matlab when they see a progbar :)

like this much better than waitbar!!! Nice work

[Khaledov Kh]

Needs to name the process bar...

[jongchul kim]

slsls