badbasser98

Looking for information on how to create a Progress Bar in a Win32 App. Have been googling for 2 days now and from what I can tell, a vast majority of the info I have found is for use with Visual C++.. Actually about 90% of the info from any search I have done is. Almost making think about getting a visual compiler.

I want it to be toward the middle of the window preferably, not in a status bar at the bottom. Are there any resources that yout guys have come across that could be usefull? I am converting a console program that I created to a GUI. I thought it would be nice to give the end user a graphical assurance that the program is infact working. My program goes into a directory and deletes place holder files that can get left behind if the program crashes, if the server crashes, etc. There are five files, and would like to create a stepping progress bar that steps after each file is deleted.

Thanks,
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stevengs

Just as a side note, isn't there a patent on the idea of a 'progress bar'?

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badbasser98

Would seem kinda silly to me. Every installation I have ever run had a progress bar to show how far along the install is. Would highly doubt that one company/person is getting royalties everytime a program is made with a progress bar. Guess anything is possible...

I think I am going to break down and buy MS Visual C++ .NET, plus I know there is direct support within that program for a progress bar.

Am still up for info on how to create/impliment a progress bar without using a visual compiler.

Thanks,
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tempest

Dev-C++ and GTK+.

http://www.gtk.org/tutorial1.2/gtk_tut-9.html#ss9.4

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stevengs

EXACTLY!

Richard Stallman:

Article

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ivan

or you can use win32 but it's a bit hard and it sucks

badbasser98

Thanks tempest. Looks good.

:eek:

wow... Does that count even if the program is for private use and is not going to be a publicly used, published program?

Thanks,
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stevengs

Well, if you don't live in Europe, it won't affect you anyways (until you export your products). Secondly, I do not believe that the owner ever filed any suits, so it may have been overturned or revoked or whatever. I haven't heard anything about since that article.

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badbasser98

whew... No, I do not live in Europe. Thanks for the info stevengs. Had me scared for a minute or two.

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ivan

I even read the some companies tried to issue the serial number mechanism as their patent... What wrong with that people???