How to use the Progress Bar?

Hello,

I am about to develop a backing up program and would like to know how to use and configure the 'Progress Bar'

Any tutorial or advise would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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Robert Culver
IT Student
E-mail - robert_culver2000@hotmail.com
Web Page - http://www.visual-basic.org.uk

[mcleran]

It's easy. You just indicate to the progress bar how far along you are in your code (0-100). Depending on what you're doing, you can set it manually like this:

pbarMine.Value = 50 'we're 50% done

Or, if you're doing something in a loop, you can update the progress bar every iteration:

For i = 1 to 10
Call SomeSub
pbar.Value = i*10 'so 1 = 10%, 2 = 20%, etc.
Next i

[mooose]

when I use it, I usually put a code like so in a timer:

progressbar1.value = progressbar1.value + 1

and just increase the timers interval to make it go slower and incress the + 1 to make it go faster.

and if i had it on a splash screen the timers sub would probably look like this.

Private Sub Timer1_Timer()
progressbar1.value = progressbar1.value + 5
if progressbar1.value = 50 then 'see if its at 50%
load frmmain 'load main form to memory
end if
if progressbar1.value = 100 then 'check if its at 100%
frmmain.show
end if
end sub



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Mooose