Progress Bar Continous Style

I'm not sure if this is the correct place for this but I didn't see a section specific to the Progress Bar control.

I am implementing a Progress Bar control in a form with the style set to Continuous however it does not behave that way. Instead of displaying a continously moving progress bar it moves like a normal progress bar with steps.

 Is there a special setting that I am missing?

After reading my post I realized I meant to ask if it was possible to have the Progress Bar style similar to the Marquee style of the default visual studio Progress Bar?

I beleive Continuous in this context is as opposed to segmented meaning
that the bar is displayed in one solid peice instead of as several
segments.  There is currently no Marquee style. You should Submit a feature request to Infragistics.

 

 Thanks for the reply. I'll submit the request.

 

• Could you describe what scenrios you would be using a marquee progress bar for? 
• Is it used as an editor (aka embedded in the grid), is it part of a popup?
• Is it ever going to need to switch between marquee and progress? 
• What type of features do you see necessary on a marquee mode? 
  • Do you need to control the animation speed? 
  • Do you want to specify whether the progress bar is in a continuous loop or bouncing back and forth in Marquee mode?

 

If you could offer your feedback it would be most beneficial as we look at ways of solving this scenario.

Kind Regards,

Andrew M. Flick
Product Manager, Infragistics

The marquee should work exactly like the windows marquee style. This would be used if you had a seperate thread running on which there wasn't a fixed number of tasks. It would also be used if on a seperate thread tasks were running but the tasks did not return any indicator of their status other than if it was running or complete.
 
It would be used where ever the normal Infragistics progress bar was used. I don't think switching between marquee and progress would be useful as it would probably confuse the end user as to what was happening.
 
The marquee would work similar to the windows mode where it bounces back and forth. While controling the animation speed would be a nice feature I don't think it would be a requirment. The end user just needs to see that it is moving.
 
I hope this helps.

Hi,

Just to clarify… if you want it to behave just like the MS ProgressBar in Marquee style, then why not simply use the MS ProgressBar in this case? What is it that you want the Infragistics control to add that the MS ProgressBar does not already have?

 

I wanted to keep the look and feel of the application the same. I did want to use two separate bars. I wanted to create a control using one type of bar but controlling the behavior using public properties.

I finally used the windows bar instead of the Infragistics bar sacrificing all of the appearance customizations I could do for the exact functionality I needed.