NAME

Acme::Spinner - A trivial example of one of those activity spinners

VERSION

Version 0.03

SYNOPSIS

    use Acme::Spinner;
    my $s = Acme::Spinner->new();
    while(<>) {
        print STDERR $s->next(), "\r";
        do_interesting_stuff( with => $_ );
    } 

ABSTRACT

This is a simple module that helps manage one of those silly spinning bar things that some programs use when they want you to think they are busy.

DESCRIPTION

Some programs take a long time to do some functions. Sometimes people are get confused about what is happening and start pressing buttons in an effort to illicit some response while a program is taking a long time. Strangely enough if the program gives the person using it something to watch while it is busy with other work the person is much more likely to leave the program alone so that can finish its work.

METHODS

new

The creator.

next

Bump the spinner by one and return it.

AUTHOR

Chris Fedde, <cfedde at cpan.org>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-acme-spinner at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Acme-Spinner. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc Acme::Spinner

You can also look for information at:

• RT: CPAN's request tracker

  http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Acme-Spinner

• AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

  http://annocpan.org/dist/Acme-Spinner

• CPAN Ratings

  http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Acme-Spinner

• Search CPAN

  http://search.cpan.org/dist/Acme-Spinner

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2008 Chris Fedde, all rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.