Re: adapter.fill and progress bar

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On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 17:50:50 -0800, "Rain County"
<raincounty-at-hotmail> wrote:

>When I initialize my app, I put up a "splash" screen with a progress bar
>while the app fills its datasets. The fill takes longer sometimes than it
>does other times. Is there anyway to measure/determine the progress of the
>fill operation? I wish to know this so that I can adjust the progress bar
>to be more realistic.
>
>(Currently, the time to fill the datasets can range from 5 seconds to 20
>seconds, even though the dataset size dows not vary very much.)
>
>TIA
>

If you're using .NET 2.0 you can use the Progress bar in Marquee mode.
When you use that mode the bars squares in the bar oscillate from one
side to the other while the work is being done.


Otis Mukinfus
http://www.otismukinfus.com
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