How to have a progress bar for loading a windows Forms?

[lsharva]

i m Developing a Software application where the windows forms are used .
i want a starting Window where user don't have to do anything as it loads the Windows Forms, the forms are taking more time than required so , it looks that each control loads each time and looks very bad, so i want to give a starting progress bar. and as the Windows controls are loaded , then user should get the full form in front of him,
also in transition from one form to another, i want to put in between the forms disposing and loading the new one
please suggest me solutions
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[cloud255]

there is a .NET progress bar which you could use, its a pretty basic control and you can create forms, so the transisiton forms wont be a problem. What is the exact part which you are stuck with?
Your question is a bit vague, if you could clarify a bit more, we could offer some more relevant help...

[lsharva]

Cloud!! the problem is i want to put this Progress Bar of .Net in between two forms transition.and problem is simple ,, i only know to run the Progress bar with the help of timer and ticks , what i actually want to do it, is that Progress bar should move according to the Form load instead of Timer , so how can i check whats the form state and when it is ready to be used by the User .
i want to make Form visible only when all controls are loaded and Mean time Progress Bar runs , to notify user that he have to wait.
thanks for answering!

[Curtis Rutland]

Well, you're probably going to have to calculate the total amount of steps, set that as the max value for the progress bar, and after each step you do increment the progress bar.

[lsharva]

Hey can you elaborate on it , how can I calculate that!!

[lsharva]

This what is got as help for Timer based Running ,, but need process based Running of progress bar

 
    private void Main_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            Thread t = new Thread(new ThreadStart(Go));
            timer1.Enabled = true;
            this.Visible = false;
            t.Start();
        }
 
        private static void Go()
        {
 
            timer1.Interval = 100;
 
            timer1.Start();
        }
 
        private void timer1_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            int x = 1;
 
            progressBar1.Increment(x);
 
            if (progressBar1.Value == 100)
            {
 
                timer1.Enabled = false;
                progressBar1.Visible = false;
                this.Visible = true;
            }
 
        }
        #endregion
 

[Curtis Rutland]

Maybe you should post the part of your code that is running so slowly that you need to use the progress bar. That might help.

[cloud255]

Cloud!! the problem is i want to put this Progress Bar of .Net in between two forms transition.and problem is simple ,, i only know to run the Progress bar with the help of timer and ticks , what i actually want to do it, is that Progress bar should move according to the Form load instead of Timer , so how can i check whats the form state and when it is ready to be used by the User .
i want to make Form visible only when all controls are loaded and Mean time Progress Bar runs , to notify user that he have to wait.
thanks for answering!

Well that was, uhhh, enthusiastic. Ok so you want to base the progress bar on something else, you say that the controls take long to load, i dont think it is the controls, but rather putting data in those controls, like Insert said, if you post the 'slow' code we could have a look at it and try to make it faster.

If it is the actaul controls which are slow, you could subscribe to the Paint event for each contorl on the form, and each time this fires increase the total completion of the progress bar by 1/numberOfControls * 100.

Hope you find this post more helpful.

[Curtis Rutland]

If it is the actaul controls which are slow, you could subscribe to the Paint event for each contorl on the form, and each time this fires increase the total completion of the progress bar by 1/numberOfControls * 100.

You explained it better than I did...it's 1:50 AM for me...way too tired...zzzzzz

[lsharva]

Thanks a lot friends, i hv another found about this matter that, Can We Use BackGroundWorker in this Situation, if yes, then kindly help me, with example!

[joedeene]

take a look at this link...
http://bytes.com/forum/thread355878.html

perhaps more browsing on google or even this site's search engine would've been what you were looking for.