Re: CProgressCtrl help needed

From:
David Wilkinson <no-reply@effisols.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:52:04 -0400
Message-ID:
<Obbtp6SqIHA.2256@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>
triveni wrote:

Hi,

I am writing a dialog-based mfc application for a smartphone. There is
a dialog in app, which is a login page with username and password
field with OK button. When a user clicks OK button, and tries to
login, I show a progress bar using CProgressCtrl class. In the
background I verify that username and password match. If it matches, I
go to the next dialog and ProgressBar works fine.But, If username and
password do not match, I give error messagebox to user and stay in the
same login dialog. Now, the progressbar should show 0 progress (or
disappear). I set the position of ProgressCtrl to 0 using
m_ProgressCtrl->SetPos(0) . If user enters username & password again
this time, ProgressCtrl should behave exactly as it did earlier(Show
progress blocks while I verify fields in background). But, the
progressbar does not work that way. There is no change in the ctrl and
progress is not shown at all.

My questions:

1) How to hide/show the ProgressCtrl seamlessly as I want in code at
runtime?
2) How to make Progress Control work just like it works in any
browser.

My code:

onOK()
{
     CProgressCtrl *m_PC = new CProgressCtrl;
     m_PC->SetRange(0,100);
     m_PC->SetPos(10);
     m_PC->StepIt();

     // Code to verify username and password. and m_PC->StepIt() every
2 seconds.
     if(username and password valid)
     {

         //Go to next dialog

    }
   else
   {
      // Error message.
      // m-PC->SetPos(0);
   }
return;

}


Triveni:

When you say "in the background" do you mean in a separate thread? If so, are
you manipulating the progress control from a different thread? Don't do that;
rather use Postmessage() or SendMessage() to inform the main thread and let the
main thread update the progress control.

Also, where is this progress control? And how do you create it? The code you
show cannot be your actual code.

--
David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP

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