Best way to show something is happening in app

[John Cassell]

Hi there,

I am just creating the reporting part of my application and was looking for tips on how I could tell the user that something is still happening in the application..

At the moment when I click 'Run Report', I change the cursor to "Wait" and then basically the user has no idea if anything is happening whilst the tableadapter is filled?

Can someone give some advice please?

Thanks

John

 

[JohnH]

StatusStrip with one Progressbar item and one StatusLabel item. The progressbar Style set to Marquee when you're not able to calculate/feedback absolute progress value. The label text telling what is actually going on.

 

[John Cassell]

Hi John, thanks for that. I got the Marquee to run ok but some of the machines running this system will be Win 2K so I have disabled XP Visual Styles.

But the marquee style is exactly what I am look for (i.e no indication of progress just that something is going on). I don't suppose there is any other way to do this?

Thanks

John

 

[JohnH]

Except coding a loop/timer yourself to set value continuously, there exist many other progressbar controls that does the marquee style with custom paint, for example SQL Server 2005 Circular Progress Bar

 

[John Cassell]

Thanks John, I've just thought - The spinning green progress which shows by default is ideal for me. The only thing is that it starts going after the TB has been filled, I could do with being able to call this progress circle before the TBFill, I'm looking around now to see if this is possible but I am struggling, would you know how to call this manually?