l337killa07

I have a question.....what code you use in order to make the status show on a status bar? does the status bar code have to be integrated with the other functions that are going on at that time in order to update as the other processes are carried out?

cplusruss

Progress bar or status bar? .... nope:

create a timer control which will handle the semaphor event.
Make your status bar and assign the code to update the status bar based on the interval.

Rory

Well there's a progress bar in VB6 that you'll find under windows common controls (not to be confused with the status bar). Basically you define it a Min and a Max, and the progress bar then reflects the position of Value within this range (i.e. if Min=0 Max=3 and Value=1 then 25% of the bar would be filled). To answer your question, yes you need to update the value property of the progress bar throughout your time consuming property, and as you're most probably in a loop, call DoEvents as well. Hope this helps.

l337killa07

eh....ill stick to the basics.....i just thought itd be nice to let the user know how much of the information is processed as it goes along...thank you rory

Rory

Sorry I didn't make it clear enough first time! Basically a progress bar is gui element simply representing a percentage / fraction. It's up to you to write the code to update it regularly within the time-consuming process being conducted.

ivan

You can use a timer control as cplusruss said. Then let suppose that you need to do some 35 operations, for example.

The formula for the prog bar percentage would be: (100 * operDone) / 35

Where 'operDone' is the variable than holds the number of done operations.

A better way would be to place this formula after end of every operation which would consume less cpu speed.