The following answer assumes you're dealing with a situation in which:
1) You already have a window where you can show the results as a non-
modal window
2) The process has a fixed number of 'units' to process (such as
records in a database, bytes to d/l, etc...)
Here's my pseudo-code:
// Function prototypes
double Now(void); // this function returns the current time in
microseconds.
void update(double total_time); // this function updates your window.
// a CONST for converting seconds -> microseconds.
const double conversion_factor = 1e6;
...
int i;
double time;
double delta_t;
double total_t; // total time remaining, NOT a countdown from now!
time = Now(); // seed our process estimate.
total_t = conversion_factor * 60.0 * 60.0; // 1 hr in us; a good
guesstimate for d/l stuff.
update(total_t);
for (i = 1; i<=num_processing_units; ++i)
{
... // do loop stuff.
// Get the new delta_t...
delta_t = (Now() - time);
// and adjust the estimate based on it, which is (time per 'unit'
* # 'units' remaining to process).
total_t = delta_t * ((double) num_processing_units - i);
update(total_t);
}
update(0.0);
...
Note that the update() function should take into account the
granularity of your display units (i.e. if you have something like:
Time remaining: 1 h 23 m
then your granularity is minutes, so ignore any change smaller than a
minute, so that you don't needlessly update the display if delta_t
happens to be less than 1e6 * 60 (60,000,000 microseconds = 1 minute).
On Jun 1, 2008, at 7:50 AM, Nick Rogers wrote:
Hi,
I want to show time remaining while executing a loop.
How to go about it?
WIshes,
nick
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