[RESOLVED] Progress Bar Help

[zdavis]

Hi Everyone.

I have a progress bar on a form. I want to have a continous progress bar while an operation is being performed. I would like to tie this to a button click event. I have posted the code below. Please let me know what i am doing wrong.

private void btnFindLabels_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            
            
            this.ProgressBar.Style = ProgressBarStyle.Marquee;
            this.ProgressBar.MarqueeAnimationSpeed = 100;
 
            //this.ProgressBar.Maximum = myfile.Length;
            //this.ProgressBar.Minimum = 1;
            //this.ProgressBar.Step = (myfile.Length / 100);
            
         
        }

Thanks in advance

[jmcilhinney]

And what happens when you click this button?

[zdavis]

nothing.....no action at all happens

[jmcilhinney]

Have you placed a breakpoint on that method? Does it actually get executed? The same code works perfectly for me, assuming that you have a ProgressBar named "ProgressBar" (which is not a very good name by the way) and that that method is handling the Click event of the appropriate Button.

Also, you shouldn't be setting the MarqueeAnimationSpeed in code unless you specifically want to change it. Normally you'd set that in the designer and just leave it. Always set the appropriate initial property values in the designer if you know them at design time and only set them in code if you specifically need to change them from that initial value.

[zdavis]

jmcilhinney,

Thanks for all the great advice. I realize my naming scheme was the best you could do. However this issue i figured out was that I was doing quite a bit of processing. I have used a background worker and everything seems to be working fine.

thanks for all the help

-zd