Progress bar animation

[Techno]

Just wanting a simple endless animation with 3 bars just scrolling across a simple Winforms Progress control

how can I do this?

[stanav]

which .net version are you coding in? For .net 2.0, you can simply set the ProgressBarStyle property to Marquee to start animation and Blocks to stop animation

 this.progressBar1.Style = ProgressBarStyle.Marquee;

With .net 1.x, you have to do it manually by increment the value using a timer. Start the timer to animate and stop the timer to stop the animation.

private void timer1_Elapsed(object sender, System.Timers.ElapsedEventArgs e)
		{
			int val = this.progressBar1.Value;
			
				if (val < this.progressBar1.Maximum)
				{
					val += 1;
				} 
				else 
				{
					val = 0;
				}
			this.progressBar1.Value = val;
		}

[Techno]

using .NET 2.0

I'm just curious...I'm sure that setting the property won't automatically scroll in a marquee style?

what exactly do I need to do to make it scroll?
I just want it to automatically keep scrolling without me doing anything but calling say a method called "Start()", then it will take care of it scrolling itself

[Techno]

cool thanks for that, worked great.

how would I stop the marquee, after say i press the "Stop()" button? Only way really seems to be to change the style...

[stanav]

Just set the ProgrssBarStyle back to Blocks to stop the animation

 private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            //start the animation
            this.progressBar1.Style = ProgressBarStyle.Marquee;
        }

        private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            //stop the animation
            this.progressBar1.Style = ProgressBarStyle.Blocks;
        }