progbar

progbar.m: general purpose progress bar for MATLAB

Description

This is a script based progress bar for MATLAB, simple usage is very simple, more complex usage is available. multiple instances no problem.

NOTE: special consideration has been given to not slowing down your hyper-optimised loops, so you should find this better than the sort of progress bar you get for free in a box of cereal.

NOTE: updated 12/05/2010 to be even better (twice as good) at not slowing down your loops. i think i really need to get a life.

typical usage:
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info.color='red';
info.title='hard work';
p=progbar(info);
for n=1:1000
  % do hard work here...
  progbar(p,n/1000*100);
end
progbar(p,-1);

• Acknowledgements: This submission has inspired the following:; progressbar
• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7 (R14)

[Marc Schurr]

 

[Yuval Cohen]

Did not work properly under Matlab 6.0 and Windows XP
To fix the problem, replace lines 122-127 with:

handle=figure(...
'MenuBar','none',...
'resize','on',...
'numbertitle','off',...
'userdata',info,...
'name',info.title);
set(handle,'Resize','off');

[Edo Becker]

very nice tool, needs modification for windows 2000 and Matlab 6.1

[Chris St. Jean]

Worked perfectly without modification. Thanks!

[Philippe Lagueux]

Worked perfectly and easily. However, does not recognize color codes such as 'r' (red==>[1 0 0]) with version 6.5 R13

[Uri Perets]

Exelent tool, easy for use. Just one problem, in R13 it don't recongnise color codes.

[altug bicak]

great work

[James Goodwin]

Great tool. Useful for long calculations where your not sure how far matlab has got!

[Rajeev Madazhy]

good tool....

[Rialland Stephane]

Simple use and excellent.

[Pedro Antoranz]

Very useful and easy to call

[Nate Hough]

beautiful, works like a charm. simple but useful.

[Matthew]

beautiful

[w sq]

I have a qustion about progress bar. I wanna read a file and display a time-consum progress bar under it, but i cann't estimate how much time it used. So how do you know the percentage?