Handling timely Progress bar

[Vikash Dubey 0]

How can we set the progress bar for a situation where we dont know how much time the operation takes like Windows displays the progress when copying/Moving a file it varies depending on read data speed. Is there any estimation method. I saw one article on this site called Timed Progress but the code is not at all documented so i cannot understand what it is doing? Can anyone suggest something? Vikash

[jmkhael]

What you can set in a progress bar, is the the range, the position and the step. Lets say the range is 0 to 100, the starting position is 0 and the step is 1. You should do the calculation in a way that in the end you have a hundred, You dont really care about the time, what you care about is to put your StepIt function in a way that it gets called on every "iteration" of the long process so the progress bar gets updated, this shows that you need somehow to know the number of iterations needed and based on that to calculate your step. So for a range of 100 , an iterations number of N > 0 , the step should be 100 / N. If you cant know the iterations number, you should try to "approximate it" Hope this helps, Papa while (TRUE) Papa.WillLove ( Bebe ) ;

[Vikash Dubey 0]

Thank you. But suppose the process is spread over several loops then how do i do it.

[jmkhael]

Then divide by the number of loops too Papa while (TRUE) Papa.WillLove ( Bebe ) ;