[GRASS-dev] Re: G_percent()

[Martin Landa]

Hamish,

2008/6/12 Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com>:
> just some tips re G_percent()
>
> - put it at the end of the loop not the beginning.
>
> say the iteration takes very long per step. if you put it at the very start it instantly says "3% done" the first time you call it then stalls on 100% done while the last iteration is executed.
>
> - usually you will have to call it a final time after the for loop to get the "100% done" and newline to be printed. This depends on how you write your i++ for loop of course, but typically if you don't the number stalls a 99% without newline.

thanks, I forgot about this. I fixed my last commit in devbr6 and
trunk [1]. I didn't call G_percent() after the loop, AFAIU in this
case it is not needed -- for (line=1, line <= nlines; line++) --
otherwise final 100% is printed twice.

Martin

[1] http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/changeset/31686

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