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NAME

Meta::Utils::Progress - progress reporter which will be enhanced later.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

        MANIFEST: Progress.pm
        PROJECT: meta
        VERSION: 0.07

SYNOPSIS

        package foo;
        use Meta::Utils::Progress qw();
        my($progress)=Meta::Utils::Progress->new();
        $progress->start();
        while(*foo*) {
                *bar*
                $progress->report();
        }
        $progress->finish();

DESCRIPTION

This is basically an abstract API for a progress repoting device. Instantiations could be a GTK widget, a text console widget, text console running numbers or what ever.

FUNCTIONS

        BEGIN()
        init($)
        start($)
        report($)
        finish($)
        TEST($)

FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

BEGIN()

This method sets up the get/set routines for the following attributes: index - current progress indicator value.

init($)

Initializes the object. Internal method.

start($)

Start the progress indication session.

report($)

Reports progress.

finish($)

Closes the object down.

TEST($)

Test suite for this module.

SUPER CLASSES

None.

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

        Name: Mark Veltzer
        Email: mailto:veltzer@cpan.org
        WWW: http://www.veltzer.org
        CPAN id: VELTZER

HISTORY

        0.00 MV dbman package creation
        0.01 MV more thumbnail issues
        0.02 MV website construction
        0.03 MV web site development
        0.04 MV web site automation
        0.05 MV SEE ALSO section fix
        0.06 MV download scripts
        0.07 MV md5 issues

SEE ALSO

Meta::Class::MethodMaker(3), strict(3)

TODO

Nothing.