Progress Bar Control

Hi All,
I've had a look through previous posts, and discovered the Microsoft ProgressBar Control, which looks fine for what I need, but I can't find any useful support on it from anywhere! How do I link it to my sub?

Thanks,

See:


http://groups.google.com/group/micro...4ae4a6a8c4d49a
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"pianoman" wrote:

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> Hi All,
> I've had a look through previous posts, and discovered the Microsoft
> ProgressBar Control, which looks fine for what I need, but I can't find
> any useful support on it from anywhere! How do I link it to my sub?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
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Thanks Gary's Student, but this isn't quite what I need... The ProgressBar Cntrol is a seperate entity that you can paste onto your sheet, add text, whatever... the search you made will only allow me to access the green status LED's in the bottom window, unless I have misread of course...

Thanks,

Gareth

I would use this PB
http://www.enhanceddatasystems.com/E...rogressBar.htm

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HTH

Bob Phillips

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> Hi All,
> I've had a look through previous posts, and discovered the Microsoft
> ProgressBar Control, which looks fine for what I need, but I can't find
> any useful support on it from anywhere! How do I link it to my sub?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> --
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Thanks for that Bob,
I did see your suggestion in a previous post, but I couldn't see how to use it... Where to I post my code? Presumably I have to sandwich the longest part of the sub in there somewhere...?

I've copied the two modules into my project, as instructed on the web site... now what?!

Thank you,
Gareth

You have to call the PB at various points within your processes. That is
true with any PB, You will need to look at your code and see where to
install the PB interrupts.

Robin provides a demo, which you can look at to see how to use it.

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HTH

Bob Phillips

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> Thanks for that Bob,
> I did see your suggestion in a previous post, but I couldn't see how
> to use it... Where to I post my code? Presumably I have to sandwich
> the longest part of the sub in there somewhere...?
>
> I've copied the two modules into my project, as instructed on the web
> site... now what?!
>
> Thank you,
> Gareth
>
>
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Ok, so Code wise, I need to call the PB at the start of my code using

call Show()

then insert

call updatestatus()

at regular points in my code...?

Something like that?

I don't understand how to adapt the demo on the site to fit my own codes... maybe I lef tmy brain at home this morning, but this isn't clicking at all today!

Thanks,

I am afraid at this point I cannot tell you as it depends. You need to
identify points in your code where you can insert the call to the PB. This
will have to be frequent, and meaningful to get the PB moving in a smooth
fashion.
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Bob Phillips

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>
> Ok, so Code wise, I need to call the PB at the start of my code using
>
> call Show()
>
> then insert
>
> call updatestatus()
>
> at regular points in my code...?
>
> Something like that?
>
> I don't understand how to adapt the demo on the site to fit my own
> codes... maybe I lef tmy brain at home this morning, but this isn't
> clicking at all today!
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> --
> pianoman
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this approach documented at John Walkenbach's site is extremely easy and
should help you understand the concepts.

http://www.j-walk.com/ss/excel/tips/tip34.htm

I haven't used Rob's code, but I wouldn't doubt it is based on the same
principle, but encased in a class module.

The important point is that the progress bar has no built in intelligence
(or timers) - you have to tell it (in your code) to update and to update to
what value at the appropriate points.

One caution on limitations: Many people would like to show a progress bar
when saving a file that takes a long time to save (as an example). since
this is a single command, there is no way the code can update a progress bar
during the save.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy


"pianoman" wrote:

>
> Ok, so Code wise, I need to call the PB at the start of my code using
>
> call Show()
>
> then insert
>
> call updatestatus()
>
> at regular points in my code...?
>
> Something like that?
>
> I don't understand how to adapt the demo on the site to fit my own
> codes... maybe I lef tmy brain at home this morning, but this isn't
> clicking at all today!
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> --
> pianoman
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Thanks Tom,
Ok, I'm starting to grasp bits of this function now! I'm a little confused about how I adapt the code below (part of the JWalk example) which wraps a couple of lines which repeat several thousand time in the progress code, to fit my coding, which has a couple of looping section, but mainly works through in a linear fashion, without a single section that I can integrate into an incrementing 'loop'.

I have 25 pages of code so can't really post it, but I'd be happy to send it to someone if that would make it any clearer...


Counter = 1
RowMax = 100
ColMax = 25
For r = 1 To RowMax
For c = 1 To ColMax
Cells(r, c) = Int(Rnd * 1000)
Counter = Counter + 1
Next c
PctDone = Counter / (RowMax * ColMax)
With UserForm1
.FrameProgress.Caption = Format(PctDone, "0%")
.LabelProgress.Width = PctDone * (.FrameProgress.Width - 10)
End With
' The DoEvents statement is responsible for the form updating
DoEvents
Next r


Thank you,
Gareth