Progress indicator

Examples of progress indicators

• A progress bar, a typically horizontal bar which is gradually filled with a color as the process completes.
• A throbber, an image in a program's interface which animates to show that the software is busy.
• A splash screen, covering all or most of the computer screen while a program is loading.
• Turning the mouse pointer into an hourglass or a spinning pinwheel to indicate to the user that they should not click anything until the active process is complete.
• A simple textual percentage figure, common in CLI applications.