waittext

Display updating line of text or textual waitbar in Matlab Command Window.

Version 1.0, 4-13-16

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waittext is a fast full-featured text-based alternative to Matlab’s GUI-based waitbar. See included help and demos for usage.

waittext is typically used inside of a for loop that performs a lengthy computation. waittext updates the current line very quickly. If a for loop takes less than 10 ms (0.01 sec.) to execute, it is reccomended that a textual waitbar be used or that waittext not be called every iteration in order for the updating text values to be more easily readable.

Andrew D. Horchler, horchler @ gmail . com, biorobots.case.edu
Created: 6-8-12, Revision: 1.0, 4-13-16

This version tested with Matlab 9.0.0.341360 (R2016a)
Mac OS X 10.11.4 (Build: 15E65), Java 1.7.0_75-b13
Compatibility maintained back through Matlab 7.4 (R2007a)

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