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§Throbber widget of ratatui
NOTE: If you want to use tui-rs instead of ratatui, please use 0.4.1 or older version.
throbber-widgets-tui is a ratatui widget that displays throbber.
A throbber may also be called:
- activity indicator
- indeterminate progress bar
- loading icon
- spinner
- guru guru
§Demo

The demo shown in the gif can be run with all available symbols.
cargo run --example demo --release§Features
- Render throbber
- With label
- Random or specified step, also negative is possible.
§Getting Started
MSRV: throbber-widgets-tui requires rustc 1.86.0 or newer.
cargo add throbber-widgets-tuiExample code:
// :
// :
struct App {
throbber_state: throbber_widgets_tui::ThrobberState,
}
impl App {
fn on_tick(&mut self) {
self.throbber_state.calc_next();
}
}
// :
// :
fn ui(f: &mut ratatui::Frame, app: &mut App) {
let chunks = ratatui::layout::Layout::default()
.direction(ratatui::layout::Direction::Horizontal)
.margin(1)
.constraints(
[
ratatui::layout::Constraint::Percentage(50),
ratatui::layout::Constraint::Percentage(50),
]
.as_ref(),
)
.split(f.area());
// Simple random step
let simple = throbber_widgets_tui::Throbber::default();
f.render_widget(simple, chunks[0]);
// Set full with state
let full = throbber_widgets_tui::Throbber::default()
.label("Running...")
.style(ratatui::style::Style::default().fg(ratatui::style::Color::Cyan))
.throbber_style(ratatui::style::Style::default().fg(ratatui::style::Color::Red).add_modifier(ratatui::style::Modifier::BOLD))
.throbber_set(throbber_widgets_tui::CLOCK)
.use_type(throbber_widgets_tui::WhichUse::Spin);
f.render_stateful_widget(full, chunks[1], &mut app.throbber_state);
}§Apps using throbber-widgets-tui
- mntime: Execute “m” commands “n” times to calculate mean of usage time and memory. As an alternative to “time”, “gnu-time” is used internally.
§Dependencies (By default)
Direct dependencies crates:
| License | crate |
|---|---|
| Apache-2.0 OR MIT (1) | rand |
| MIT (1) | ratatui |
| Zlib (1) | throbber-widgets-tui |
Chain dependencies crates:
| License | crate |
|---|---|
| (Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND Unicode-3.0 (1) | unicode-ident |
| (Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND Unicode-DFS-2016 (1) | finl_unicode |
| Apache-2.0 OR Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception OR MIT (5) | linux-raw-sys, rustix, wasi, wasip2, wit-bindgen |
| Apache-2.0 OR BSL-1.0 (1) | ryu |
| Apache-2.0 OR LGPL-2.1-or-later OR MIT (1) | r-efi |
| Apache-2.0 OR MIT (99) | allocator-api2, anyhow, atomic, base64, bit-set, bit-vec, bitflags, bitflags, block-buffer, bumpalo, cfg-if, cpufeatures, crypto-common, csscolorparser, deranged, digest, document-features, either, equivalent, errno, euclid, fixedbitset, fnv, getrandom, hashbrown, heck, hex, ident_case, indoc, itertools, itertools, itoa, js-sys, kasuari, lazy_static, libc, line-clipping, litrs, lock_api, log, mac_address, memmem, minimal-lexical, num-conv, num-derive, num-traits, num_threads, once_cell, parking_lot, parking_lot_core, pest, pest_derive, pest_generator, pest_meta, portable-atomic, powerfmt, proc-macro2, quote, rand, rand_core, regex, regex-automata, regex-syntax, rustversion, scopeguard, serde, serde_core, serde_derive, sha2, signal-hook, signal-hook-mio, signal-hook-registry, siphasher, smallvec, static_assertions, syn, syn, thiserror, thiserror, thiserror-impl, thiserror-impl, time, time-core, typenum, ucd-trie, unicode-segmentation, unicode-truncate, unicode-width, utf8parse, uuid, wasm-bindgen, wasm-bindgen-macro, wasm-bindgen-macro-support, wasm-bindgen-shared, winapi, winapi-i686-pc-windows-gnu, winapi-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu, windows-link, windows-sys |
| Apache-2.0 OR MIT OR Zlib (1) | bytemuck |
| MIT (44) | castaway, compact_str, convert_case, crossterm, crossterm_winapi, darling, darling_core, darling_macro, deltae, derive_more, derive_more-impl, fancy-regex, filedescriptor, generic-array, instability, lab, lru, memoffset, mio, nix, nom, ordered-float, phf, phf_generator, phf_macros, phf_shared, ratatui, ratatui-core, ratatui-crossterm, ratatui-macros, ratatui-termwiz, ratatui-widgets, redox_syscall, strsim, strum, strum_macros, termios, termwiz, vtparse, wezterm-blob-leases, wezterm-color-types, wezterm-dynamic, wezterm-dynamic-derive, wezterm-input-types |
| MIT AND Unicode-DFS-2016 (1) | wezterm-bidi |
| MIT OR Unlicense (2) | aho-corasick, memchr |
| WTFPL (1) | terminfo |
| Zlib (2) | foldhash, throbber-widgets-tui |
§License
This repository’s license is zlib. Please feel free to use this, but no warranty.