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+/*
+ ---------------------- progress output ----------------------
+ output progress for GUIs to a pipe
+ format: "counter_name" counter maxcounter time estimated_time \r|\n
+ */
+#ifndef GOCR_PROGRESS_H
+#define GOCR_PROGRESS_H "Oct06"
+#include <time.h>
+
+/* initialization of progress output, fname="<fileID>","<filename>","-" */
+int ini_progress(char *fname);
+
+/* ToDo: add by open_* and close_* */
+/* place to store values for progress calculation, called often, but
+ * dont call systime so often
+ */
+typedef struct progress_counter {
+ const char *name; /* name of counter */
+ int lastprintcount; /* last counter printed for extrapolation */
+ int maxcount; /* max counter */
+ int numskip; /* num of counts to skip before timecall 0..maxcount */
+ time_t starttime; /* start time of this counter */
+ time_t lastprinttime; /* last time printed in seconds */
+
+} progress_counter_t;
+
+/* progress output p1=main_progress_0..100% p2=sub_progress_0..100% */
+/* ToDo: improved_progress: counter, maxcount(ini), counter_name(ini),
+ * printinterval=10 # time before printing out progressmeter
+ * *numskip=1 # if (counter-lastprintcounter<numskip) return; gettime() ...
+ * *startutime, *lastprintutime, *lastprintcounter # numskip*=2 or /=2
+ * only 1output/10s, + estimated endtime (test on pixelfields)
+ * to stderr by default? remove subprogress, ini_progress? rm_progress?
+ * test on tcl
+ */
+progress_counter_t *open_progress(int maxcount, const char *name);
+/* free counter */
+int close_progress(progress_counter_t *counter);
+/* output progress for pc */
+int progress(int counter, progress_counter_t *pc);
+/* --------------------- end of progress output ---------------------- */
+#endif