progress bar vb2003

[JohnRChick]

Hey. I tired out vb2005 for a while, and I noticed that the progressbar in it has a setting to let it just increase itself. It only uses like 5 bars but keeps going by itself without a timer. Is there a way I can do this type in 2003? I really want it to have only 5 bars and go itself.

Thanks
John

[jmcilhinney]

You mean setting the Style property to Marquee I take it. This is a new addition for .NET 2.0 for which there is no equivalent in .NET 1.x. It was high on many people's wish list, which is why they have now added it. If you want to do the same you will either need to hack something together or find a third-party solution. None of the third-party solutions I've seen look like the standard ProgressBar though, so it means a non-standard UI.

[dynamic_sysop]

you don't need vs2005 to set the marquee style on a progressbar, it's very easy in vs2002 / 2003
you can set the progressbar style to PBS_MARQUEE using setwindowlong api
then you can use sendmessage ... PBM_SETMARQUEE specifying true or false for the wparam value & the time in milliseconds for the lparam ( the speed of the scroll )

here's the link to one of the many topics i have posted on regarding this ... ~~Scrolling Progressbar~~

mind you, i can also make a progressbar smooth in vs2003 easily

[jmcilhinney]

you don't need vs2005 to set the marquee style on a progressbar, it's very easy in vs2002 / 2003
you can set the progressbar style to PBS_MARQUEE using setwindowlong api
then you can use sendmessage ... PBM_SETMARQUEE specifying true or false for the wparam value & the time in milliseconds for the lparam ( the speed of the scroll )

here's the link to one of the many topics i have posted on regarding this ... ~~Scrolling Progressbar~~

mind you, i can also make a progressbar smooth in vs2003 easily

Sweet! Could have told me that months ago mind you.