[Ruby] Loading animation plugin

Inori · 05-15-2015, 07:36 PM

I had a supply in French so I decided to make a loading animations plugin for Ruby. Currently, it has 2 styles (0 and 1). You can add more by editing the if/elsif/else statement in the initialize method.

To install, all you need to do is paste the code into a .rb file (I named it ani.rb) in your lib folder.

To use it in a program, you just need to make the first line of your program require 'ani'.

And yes, it is multi-platform!
Usage:

Code:
<variable> = Ani.new(<style>)  - creates a new animation with the specified style under the specified name
<variable>.play(<loops>)       - plays the already created Ani the number of times specified

Code:

Code:
class Ani
	def initialize(style)
		$frames = Array.new
		if style == 0
			$frames[0] = "o     "
			$frames[1] = " o    "
			$frames[2] = "  o   "
			$frames[3] = "   o  "
			$frames[4] = "    o "
			$frames[5] = "     o"
			$frames[6] = "    o "
			$frames[7] = "   o  "
			$frames[8] = "  o   "
			$frames[9] = " o    "
			$frames[10] = "o     "
			@@n_frames = 11
		elsif style == 1
			$frames[0] = "▓"
			$frames[1] = "▒▓"
			$frames[2] = "░▒▓"
			$frames[3] = " ░▒▓"
			$frames[4] = "  ░▒"
			$frames[5] = "   ░"
			$frames[6] = "   ▓"
			$frames[7] = "  ▓▒"
			$frames[8] = " ▓▒░"
			$frames[9] = "▓▒░"
			$frames[10] = "▒░"
			$frames[11] = "░"
			@@n_frames = 12
		end
	end

	def play(loops)
		loops.times do
			i = 0
			@@n_frames.times do
				system "cls" or system "clear"
				puts $frames[i]
				i += 1
				sleep(0.04)
			end
		end
	end
end

[Ruby] Loading animation plugin
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