Progress bar ActiveX OCX control displaying % of the task accomplished.

[dar6922]

Hello and thank you for checking out my message. I am now in between projects and since I've got some free time I decided to
make a few pieces of code that I found quite useful as ActiveX controls. So let me introduce you the first ActiveX control - it's a
progress bar indicating the % of the task accomplished. I often use it instead of microsoft progress bar control. I would
encourage you to check the enclosed zip file with detailed description of this control (in HTML). If you want to use this control just
send email to dar6922@yahoo.com and I will gladly email it to you for a small contribution of $3.

[VBproGGer]

Ha, are you kidding. The Microsoft Progress bar works just fine. Why would we pay $3 for another control, when the original one works fine.

[Zaei]

Though I know that you mean well by asking a small price for your control, displaying a percentage is quite trivial. I dont know if your control also takes into account what operating system (XP progress bars are different then Win2k bars) is in use, but the MS control takes care of all of that under the covers. By simply placing a transparent label over the MS control, just about anyone could display the percentage.

Sorry to burst your bubble, and I dont mean to be rude, but most people are only going to be willing to pay if the control does something that will save them time and effort (sadly).

VBproGGer, try to be a bit more constructive next time, please =).

Z.

[dar6922]

Hello, everybody

Thank you so much for your comments. I think the questions are good and I'll try to address them:

Microsoft progress bar control unfortunately does not allow you to accomplish the following two things (correct me if I'm wrong):
· It can't show the percent of task accomplished unless you try to place label or text box somewhere. If you look at my control - it perfectly displays the % of the task completed in the middle of the progress bar and also the color of the text is gradually changing when approached by the progress bar. Try to accomplish it with a label or text box.
· The color of the progress bar in MS control is always blue. In my control the color of the progress bar is only limited by your imagination.

My control can't change the appearance depending on the version of windows. It's probably a negative feature but at least you know exactly how it gonna look like in any version of Windows :-)

I believe the control I am offering may simplify your life as a developer - but I might be wrong and therefore any comment is very valuable for me.

Have a great time!

[Zaei]

The color fading can be achieved with a little ingenuity with a label.

On the other hand (bear in mind that I havent used the progress bar control in a while), as far as I know, the MS control cannot change color, as you said. I wrote my own class module to address this at one point, but in the end, it just wasnt worth it. Personally, If I were to download a program where the progress bars were some sort of neon orange, It would lose just a bit of its professionalism =).

As I said, Im not trying to be rude, Im just making suggestions.

Z.

[JoeCool]

I think the root of the problem here is that this guy is charging money for something which really isn't all that amazing. This community is about sharing help for free. If this was some big utility or groundbreaking control, it would be reasonable for one to charge some money, but come on! It's pathetic to think someone would go to so much trouble to try and get like five bucks in total profit in such a disgusting, pathetic manner.

-Joe

[YoungBuck]

Besides, it's already been done, and it's free with source code. :D

YoungBuck's Progress Bar (http://www.planetsourcecode.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId=30288&lngWId=1)