Progress Bar??????

I want to put a progress bar in my project to show when files have copied over. I've been looking through previous posts but still don't really understand how to use them. Could someone please put me in the right direction.

Here is my code that copies the files. I've added the progress bar to my form. I just don't know how to use it.

Thanks for any help
JK

Code:

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Public Sub CopyTheFiles()
    Dim FSO As Object
    On Error GoTo NOFSO
    Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
    On Error Resume Next
    FSO.CopyFile "D:\Folder1\*.ack", MyNewDir, True
    FSO.CopyFile "D:\Folder2\*.dec", MyNewDir2, True
    FSO.CopyFile "D:\Folder3\*.gen", MyNewDir3, True
    FSO.CopyFile "D:\Folder4\*.out", MyNewDir3, True
    FSO.CopyFile "D:\Folder5\*.tan", MyNewDir4, True
    FSO.CopyFile "D:\Folder6\*.Rtrg", MyNewDir5, True
    MsgBox "The files have been Successfully Copied over”
   
    Set FSO = Nothing
    Exit Sub
NOFSO:
    MsgBox "FSO CreateObject Failed, Copying of files"
End Sub

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The Progressbar works easy, it has a few properties that you need:
Min - the smallest value you can give it
Max - the biggest value you can give it
Value - how far the progress is finished

Note: Don't forget to insert a doevents command, otherwise the progressbar will not draw

Example:
First add a progressbar and a command button to a form
Then, add this code to the command button

Code:

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Progressbar1.Min = 1
Progressbar1.Max = 100
For i = 1 to 100
    Progressbar1.Value = i
    Doevents
Next

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hi oetje
Thanks for the help. I've just got it to work in my project.
Cheers
JK

You might not want to call a DoEvents as this will let the system process all events, not just the progress bar refresh. You could call the ProgressBar1.Refresh method to just get the progress bar to refresh its image.

That said, if you want to have a cancel button then you will need the cancel button. You could have a cancel button like below...

Private Cancelled as Boolean

Private Sub DoCopy ()
Cancelled = False

PB.Min = 1
PB.Max = 100

For i = 1 to 100
'Do something clever...

PB.Value = i
If Cancelled then
'Clean up code to finish up
Exit For
End If
DoEvents
Next i

Msgbox "Finished!!"

End Sub

And have a button

Private sub cmdCancel_Click()
Cancelled = True
End Sub


Then when the user presses cancel, the actions will be stopped and you can get the app to 'nicely' go back as it was.

J.

Try this:

Code:

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'Code from Megatron

Make a Form with a CommandButton, CommonDialog, Label and ProgressBar and put the following code into the Form.

Private Sub Command1_Click()

    Dim Source As String
    Dim Dest As String
    Dim Data As String
    Dim TransferRate As Integer
   
    CommonDialog1.CancelError = True
    CommonDialog1.Filter = "All Files|*.*"
    CommonDialog1.ShowOpen
   
    If Err <> 32755 Then
   
        Source = CommonDialog1.filename
        Dest = Source & " - Copy 2"

        Open Source For Binary As #1
        Open Dest For Binary As #2
       
        ProgressBar1.Max = FileLen(Source)
        TransferRate = 1024
       
        Do Until LOF(1) = Loc(1) Or EOF(1)
            Data = ""
            If LOF(1) - Loc(1) < ChunkSize Then
                Data = String(LOF(1) - Loc(1), 0)
            Else
                Data = String(ChunkSize, 0)
            End If
            Get #1, , Data
            Put #2, , Data
           
            Label1.Caption = Loc(1) & " bytes out of " & LOF(1) & " transfered"
            If ProgressBar1.Value + TransferRate > FileLen(Source) Then Exit Do
            ProgressBar1.Value = ProgressBar1.Value + TransferRate
           
        Loop
       
    End If
   
End Sub

you will be asked to search for the file in the CommonDialog.
When you find it, it will copy it as yourfilename - Copy2.
When it's copying, it will show the status with a Label and the ProgressBar.

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