Status bar as opposed to progress bar?

[rb-synth]

A progress bar implies a binary state – a chunk of work is either done or not yet done. Can I have, say, 3 states? I have a cluster node that is either being used, sleeping or free. I have my own implementation that works, but want to simplify by using rich. Can I have the same implementation?

In the given example, the number of 🔺's represents 1/16th of the bar width.

g5-queue1 |🔺🔺🔺🔺🔺💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱| 🔺: 1 💤: 12 🌱: 3 Tot: 16

[peterjc]

I was wondering this too, for jobs submitted to a cluster which have 3 or four states:

• Pending
• Running
• Complete (or error)

A progress bar with multiple colours might work - essentially expanding the current active "point" splitting done and pending (two colours, default red and black), into a variable length mid-section for running jobs (so three colours). e.g.

Computing ━━━━━╺━━━╺━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━   6% 0:00:36

[rb-synth]

Hey @peterjc I guess what you're looking for is slightly different from what I'm looking for. You're still looking for a progress bar, but one that has a little more information attached (the uncompleted work is split into running and pending), whereas I'm looking for a status bar. In my example, I expect the three bars to vary over time, but there is no end goal.

Perhaps the same solution will work for both of us though, of course.