Progress bar/Cursor problem

[Iceman95]

Hi,

I'm struggling with a very formal, not to say aesthetic, problem on one of my form used as a progress bar.

This form is very simple, it contains only one unbound control that is called "Percentage".

It displays the percentage of completion, when launching a report based on a somewhat "heavy" crosstab query (lots of records, etc.).

Anyway, the goal is to inform the user that the report is being processed, so that he knows wether he has time to get a coffee, or whatever he wants (the process may take as long as 2 or 3 mn).

As far as code is concerned, the variant "Percentage" is simply incremented in a loop included in the report design code, and refreshes the value of the "Percentage" control displayed in my form.

Everything works fine, except that I can't figure out a way to get rid of the cursor that stays in the unbound control : in fact, the percentage is displayed in reverse video, since the cursor focuses on the control at every iteration. Which gives my "progress bar" form quite an ugly look, and makes it difficult to read, whereas besides this "bug" it is perfectly satisfying.

Any idea anyone ?

Thanks in advance for this.

 

[boblarson]

Have you tried using a label instead of a text box and set the label's caption property? The cursor will not enter a label.

 

[NCWalker]

Or you could try setting the Enabled property to No. VB can modify a disabled control, but you can't click the focus there with the mouse.

NCWalker

 

[boblarson]

Setting Enabled to false will gray out the control and make it hard to read. Use a label. It will not accept the focus and it will not need to be disabled.

 

[Iceman95]

Thanks pal, I did not even think of using a label ! A bit slower, and I must use a .Repaint function, but it works ! Thanks again for the idea.