I have installed many software in my computer. When installing any software, I saw ProgressBar in Installation Window. I always thought, why most of the installation packages come with a ProgressBar?
The answer was simple. Because progress bar has no boundary of language. Any human can see and watch the progress of a process visually. There is no need of any words. This is one of the reasons, a ProgressBar is widely used in many application that needs to show the progress and process completion status.
In this blog and code below, I show how to use and customize a ProgressBar control.
Basic declaration and properties of Status ProgressBar are following:
// Change the type of the panel to StatusBarProgressPanel on your Form
private StatusBarProgressPanel progressPanel;
// Initialize the measurement values
progressPanel.StartPoint = 0;
progressPanel.EndPoint = 100;
progressPanel.StepSize = 1;
progressPanel.ProgressPosition = 0;
// Sample usage:
// progress the bar by one "step"
progressPanel.Step();
// reset the progress bar to the initial state
progressPanel.Reset();
// start/stop an infinite animation thread for the bar
// this is useful when you don't know how long something
// is going to take, or if the progress is just unmeasurable
progressPanel.StartAnimation();
progressPanel.StopAnimation();
// By default the value of the percentage of progress is displayed
// setting the "ShowText" property to false disables it
progressPanel.ShowText = false;
We can also change these properties visually from the designer.
![Properties Dialog from Status Bar in Form Designer]()
You may also change the AnimationStyle of the control. This basically controls the way the indicator is filled and emptied. The default is ProgressDisplayStyle.Infinate which is a pulsating draw style. Much cooler graphics can be used, just modify the Parent_DrawItem method.
///
/// Statusbar Progress Display Styles
///
public enum ProgressDisplayStyle
{
///
/// A continually moving animation
///
Infinite,
///
/// A progress bar that fills from left to right
///
LeftToRight,
///
/// A progress bar that fills from right to left
///
RightToLeft,
///
/// A progress bar that fills from bottom to top
///
BottomToTop,
///
/// A progress bar that fills from top to bottom
///
TopToBottom
}
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