custom progressbar, problem updating it.

[misterbear]

I've tried to create a custom progressbar to display while I'm doing some intensive work. I also want to update a string of what is currently going on, like an installer tells the user what file is currently being copied, and so on... So, I have a form that I display and then call methods like MyProgressForm.setProgressText(string) MyProgressForm.setProgress(int) but the GUI components (a label for the text and a custom-painted control for the progress) won't get updated, I guess because there is too much work going on... So my question is, how do I force these to be updated? What is the best way to solve this? thankful for some help, I can't seem to figure it out ...

[Stefan Troschuetz]

Calling the Update method of your ProgressBar after changing its Value or Text should solve the problem.

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[Tim Kohler]

You should be doing the lengthy processor intensive work in a thread seperate from the main gui thread. Start a worker thread and do your lengthy work there. Update the progress bar's values from the worker thread. The main window thread will then keep your bar painted properly.