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DW · Contributor Joined: 21 Mar 2003 Posts: 175 Location: UK

Ok,

My question for today is about progress bars. Can they be used anywhere and how can they be effectivly implimented?

So how do you create a progress bar and how does it know the progress of the job its doing?

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filip · Valued Contributor Joined: 07 Aug 2004 Posts: 340

DIALOG ADD,PROGRESS,PROGRESS1, ...

You can create checkpoints with this DIALOG SET,PROGRESS1, ...

DW · Contributor Joined: 21 Mar 2003 Posts: 175 Location: UK

I know how to create a progress bar, what I meant was how do i update the progress of a job to that bar.
I have been manually writing code that increments it, but that seems lame. Is there a generic way to write a good progess bar that will show a program loading, list building, etc?

Thank you

ShinobiSoft · Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 12:36 pm Post subject:

ShinobiSoft · Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 12:42 pm Post subject:

Better explain the progress code ::

DW · Contributor Joined: 21 Mar 2003 Posts: 175 Location: UK

Thank you very much, thats a fine example.

If i have a list and i load a large file into it, could i use this same example to implement a progress bar?
I have tried. The way i did it was to load file into a hidden list and then, moved the items on by one to the main list, this is where i showed my progress bar.
The problem is, i wait 2 min for the hidden list to load before the program starts counting for the main list.
how can I track the progress of the list loadfile command?

Serge · Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 3:36 pm Post subject:

you will need to keep in mind that the progress bar only accepts integers and will not work with decimals

for example, setting the progress bar 30.1 will not work, but setting 30 will

serge

ShinobiSoft · Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 3:49 pm Post subject:

To my knowledge ther is no way to track the loading of a file into a string
list, as the command doesn't return until the operation is finished.