This is my first processing program. It is basic but functional. It pulls a number 0 < N < 100 from a data.txt file which is then displayed on the progress bar as a % completed. I am sure there are a zillion different ways to implement this - I would like to know how you would do it to give me some different ways to think about it. I basically just used the
reference page to find functions that seemed useful and then played with them until I could make it work.
text("I am "+data_num+"% of the way there!", 50,80);
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the frameRate and multiplier+= values were chosen just by playing with them until I found a speed that I liked. Because I have an absolute 400 px width for the progress bar, multiplier caps out at 4 for 100%. Ideally, I would like to be able to define a static animation time of something like a quarter or half a second and have the animation speed dynamically change to accommodate that, but I haven't figured that out yet. I'm also certain that I could have used the scale or shape functions, but I didn't bother with scale and I couldn't get the syntax down for createShape or PShape.
