Thread: Progress Bar

A progress bar in the status bar? I don't know how to do that off the top of my head.

But the general principal of windows progress bars, Set the progress bar's range[by sending a PBM_SETRANGE message to the control] (ie if you expect the task to take say 10 seconds, set it to 10 - where each unit represents a second which you update every second). Or instead of using time you could use say 'tasks', ie say you have 10,000 files to move, you could set the progress bar's range to 1000 and update it every 10 files (incrementing by 1 unit). Be sure to read http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb760816.aspx . Take note that the maximum range of a progress bar is 65, 535.

After setting the progress bar's range with PBM_SETRANGE you'd use PBM_DELTAPOS or PBM_SETPOS to update the position of the progress bar.

It's all on that MSDN page.

Originally Posted by mikeman118

Oh, yeah I didn't mean have one in the status bar (did I say that? oops), I just wanted to know how to use one in general.

Anyway, thanks, I'm trying timing how long it takes to perform a function and then I'm going to use that to set the range...

Time is a very bad way of measuring these things because;

time is not overly accurate on Windows.
time varies on system load.
time varies on system type (PC specs).
time varies in debug to release mode.

So it will be very hard to get the same time each run.

I use file size, number of records ect (as zacs7 pointed out) and usually reduce to a percentage. Then I can set the number of ticks to 100 and call PMB_SETPOS with the current percentage.