Spinning rod animation/Text

Spinning rod animation/Text is a draft programming task. It is not yet considered ready to be promoted as a complete task, for reasons that should be found in its talk page.

Task

An animation with the following frames in the following order must animate with a delay of 0.25 seconds between each frame, with the previous frame being cleared before the next frame appears:

• |
• /
• -
• \

A version that loops and/or a version that doesn't loop can be made.

Microsoft Small Basic

<lang microsoftsmallbasic>a[1]="|" a[2]="/" a[3]="-" a[4]="\" b=0 While b=0

 For c=1 To 4
   TextWindow.Clear()
   TextWindow.WriteLine(a[c])
   Program.Delay(250)
 EndFor

EndWhile</lang>