Modeless Progress Bar Help

hi
im just been browsing the internet for modeless prograss bar like the one in my documents (See Photo)
http://i38.tinypic.com/2gugsn6.jpg

i want to create my progress bar like that through a combobox search for my application can anyone help me

thanks
pillhead2007

This is from the top of my head, but you could override the paint process of the combobox, so that the background will be painted every time 1% is completed.

I'm afraid that it's not going to be simple. The ComboBox doesn't support custom drawing. I think you'd have to use some involved API calls, exactly which I don't know.

But, can't you just repaint the background of the CB?

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Originally Posted by tassa

But, can't you just repaint the background of the CB?

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The ComboBox.Paint event is hidden from the designer because it's not supported. I just tried this:

vb.net Code:

Public Class ComboBoxEx
    Inherits ComboBox
 
    Protected Overrides Sub OnPaint(ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs)
        MyBase.OnPaint(e)
 
        e.Graphics.DrawRectangle(Pens.Blue, 0, 0, 25, 25)
    End Sub
 
    Protected Overrides Sub OnPaintBackground(ByVal pevent As System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs)
        MyBase.OnPaintBackground(pevent)
 
        pevent.Graphics.DrawRectangle(Pens.Red, 0, 0, 25, 25)
    End Sub
 
End Class

and placed an instance on a form and saw no blue or red square. As I said:

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The ComboBox doesn't support custom drawing.

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so if you do come across this way of modeless progress bar like that one there for a combobox please update thread and thanks for the info thanks