The GAP package ProgressBar displays the progression of a process in the terminal.
A demonstration of the simplest use case of the package, namely displaying the progression of a loop.
A demonstration of displaying the progress inside a function.
A demonstration of displaying a process tree
1. To get the newest version of this GAP 4 package download the archive file ProgressBar-x.x.tar.gz from
2. Locate a pkg/ directory where GAP searches for packages, see
in the GAP manual for more information.
3. Unpack the archive file in such a pkg/ directory
which creates a subdirectory called ProgressBar/.
4. Now you can use the package within GAP by entering LoadPackage("ProgressBar"); on the GAP prompt.
You can read the documentation online at
If you want to access it from within GAP by entering ?ProgressBar on the GAP prompt,
you first have to build the manual by using gap makedoc.g from within the ProgressBar/ root directory.
Please submit bug reports, feature requests and suggestions via our issue tracker at
ProgressBar is free software you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. For details, see the file LICENSE distributed as part of this package or see the FSF's own site.