How to display a progress indicator in pure C/C++ (cout/printf)?

Question

I\'m writing a console program in C++ to download a large file. I have known the file size, and I start a work thread to download. I want to show a progress indicator to mak

Answer 1

Here is a simple one I made:

#include 
#include 

using namespace std;

int barl = 20;

int main() {
   system("color 0e");  
   cout << "[";     
   for (int i = 0; i < barl; i++) {         
      Sleep(100);       
      cout << ":";  
   }
   cout << "]";
}