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Visual styles

Selecting a visual style

Currently progressbar supports three visual style sets:

  • COLORFUL_UNICODE_BLOCK (default): Rendered using Unicode box drawing symbols with ANSI colors. Good if your font is among Menlo, Fira Mono, Source Code Pro or SF Mono; and your terminal supports ANSI colors.

  • UNICODE_BLOCK: Rendered using Unicode box drawing symbols.

  • ASCII: Rendered using pure ASCII symbols. This is preferred if your terminal's font is either Consolas or Andale Mono.

To set these, using a progress bar builder with the setStyle method, passing in one of the enum values above. 

ProgressBarBuilder pbb = new ProgressBarBuilder()
    .setStyle(ProgressBarStyle.<STYLE>);

Since 0.10.0 you can customize the progress bar style also with a builder:

ProgressBarBuilder pbb = ProgressBar.builder()
    // ...
    .setStyle(ProgressBarStyle.builder()
                      .colorCode((byte) 33)  // the ANSI color code
                      .leftBracket("{")
                      .rightBracket("}")
                      .block('-')
                      .rightSideFractionSymbol('+')
                      .build()
   )
   // ...