We do this within our Azure node module (we have a spinner) if you look
within our cli.js at the drawAndUpdateProgress function:
https://github.com/WindowsAzure/azure-sdk-for-node/blob/master/lib/cli/cli.js


We use "\r" without "\n" when writing the spinner and it works fine.


On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 6:58 AM, Alan Gutierrez <[email protected]>wrote:

> I'd like to get animated progress working on Windows.
>
> baz.pl
>
>   print "Hello\rW\r\n";
>
> baz.js
>
>   process.stdout.write('Hello\rW\r\n');
>
> console
>
>   PS C:\git\proof> perl baz.pl
>   WPS C:\git\proof> node .\baz.js
>   Hello
>   W
>   PS C:\git\proof>
>
> I can find many sources on the Google that say that printing '\r' without
> '\n'
> to the Windows console (in this case PowerShell) will allow you to
> overwrite the
> line.
>
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