progress indicator?

[Jimlin41]

What would be a good progress indicator other than a progressbar? I added a progress bar into my program only to find that the distribution package would be 1.93MB for a program that is only 64KB! It's mainly because of MSCOMCTL.OCX.

Part of my program takes the file paths of files in a directory and writes the paths into a text box. I basically have a For loop that goes through the file names copying the paths. I need a progress indicator because in some folders such as the Windows folder, such a process takes several seconds and my program appears to freeze up. I've tried labels and image boxes but for some reason, they refresh too slowly to keep up with the For loop. Only the progress bar and object captions have been able to keep up with the progress updates. Does anyone have any ideas?

[LM Ginn]

I have used a shape control (filled rectangle) and changed its width property to indicate progress.

Hope this helps



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LM Ginn

[Jimlin41]

Hey,
Thanks! That's a great idea. It works fine but the bar flashes as it's being redrawn. Does anyone know where I can get the progress bar API written as a class? I'd write one myself but I have no idea how to even start. Any easy tutorials on classes?