Question ProgressBar Problem

[capedech]

Hi,
I want to make a ProgressBar with text inside it and I want to make the ProgressBar not using bars.
Sample in the picture :

I can make the text inside the ProgressBar with CreateGraphics and DrawString, but I still can't make the progressbar not using bars.

Please help me.

Thanks in Advance.

Regards,

 

[Robert_Zenz]

Hello.

I'd suggest to write your own control for this, since the bars should be a 'feature' of the Windows XP style.

Bobby

 

[capedech]

Hello.
I'd suggest to write your own control for this, since the bars should be a 'feature' of the Windows XP style.

Bobby

Hi Bobby, thanks for answering.
I'm sorry I'm still newbie, so in XP we can't do it ?
Could u explain more about it?

When u said to write myown control, do u mean to use picturebar ?

Thank you very much.

 

[Robert_Zenz]

The XP Progressbar has this bars, at least as far as I know it. The Vista and Win9x progressbars don't have them. This is just a part of the style as in the Human (GTK+) theme the bars are animated.

With own control I had a UserControl in mind, in which you directly overwrite the OnPaint method, and paint your own progressbar 'from scratch' if you will. This will give you the freedom to decide how it should look like.

Bobby

 

[Arijit]

you know you can use an existing object just to show a value right? since a progressbar really doesn't have any extra properties... for example, you could use a scrollbar instead or you can make your own control as suggested above... personally, i use other controls to display progress because even I dont like those bars, even changing the progressbar's property of style to continuous doesn't work...

you know there's one thing u could do, u can disable visualxpstyle and then the progressbar appears continuous and the back color and fore color properties are shown too... the style has a classic look though, could you please tell me how to embed text into a progressbar though? like in a web browser, the progressbar has the status text in it...?

 

[capedech]

Yes, i am thinking to use picture box to make it looks like in the picture that I attached.
I am not a very pro programmer right now, so I really can't make my own control.
Can u show me some simple code? Or is there any link for me to learn to make my own control? Especially progressbar.

Thanks in Advance.

Regards,

 

[Arijit]

CodeProject: Custom ProgressBar Control. Free source code and programming help <try it, it sure looks awesome, i haven't tried it yet, no time right now, but will too, meanwhile, if it works for you, clear a few things up for me about it... thanks...

here is something more promising, from Microsoft itself...
How to create a smooth ProgressBar in Visual Basic .NET or in Visual Basic 2005