Guide Overview

This section walks through the main user-facing features of loaders.zig.

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1. Getting Started — Install the dependency and build your first progress bar and spinner in minutes.

2. Progress Bars — Deep dive into bar lifecycle, increment methods, indeterminate mode, auto-sizing, and date/time decorators.

3. Spinners — Background-threaded animated spinners with mid-run text updates and finish states (succeed, fail, warn, info).

4. Multi Progress — Render multiple concurrent progress bars or spinners with coordinated cursor-based rendering.

5. Styling — Configure custom brackets, fills, tips, colors, and attributes for bars and spinners.

6. Colors — Harness 16-color ANSI, 256-color palette, and 24-bit RGB true color with automatic suppression.

7. Themes — Browse all built-in visual presets for progress bars and spinners.

8. Advanced — Custom drawing targets, thread safety, high-performance stacking, and TTY detection.