Progress or Status Bar

[vdennis]

I know I saw this somewhere, butI am trying to develope a status or progress bar to show when a program is running, to let the user know about where they are in the process. Is there anything out there already?
Thanks in advance
-Dennis-

 

[GregTomkins]

If you are talking about the Progress Windows client, I would probably use the Windows Common Controls library (COMCTL32.DLL) for this purpose.

If you are talking about a .NET client, IIRC progress bars are a standard widget included with Visual Studio.

If you are talking about a Java client, AFAIK there is no such widget commonly available so I guess you would have to write one.

If you are talking about a Web Browser client, there must be dozens of jQuery plug-ins that do this.

Stack Overflow would be a good place to look for advice on this topic, EXCEPT if you are talking about a Progress client. Nobody there knows what Progress is.

In any case, this kind of thing is usually difficult to do reliably, because fundamentally, you rarely know how long the operation is going to take (eg. how to increment the bar accurately) until after it's done. Even Microsoft can't do this very well, witness how flaky their progress bars usually are.

 

[vdennis]

I was going to try and write something in PROGRESS. And in this case we would know how long it would take, or at least how many records were going to be looked at. We are using windows client, so I may look at the dll as a start. The purpose was more to let the user know that the program was still running and not hung up. Thanks for the help.
-Dennis-

 

[vdennis]

I may have sent you an email regarding a prodcuct from a Marco Belinaso that had a web site for more info. The OCX works fine, but don't go to the web site as someone has 'grab' it as a porn site. Go figure!
-Dennis-