I'm pleased to announce that we will be releasing the UltraActivityIndicator (marquee-style progress bar) in NetAdvantage for Winforms 2010 Volume 1. :)

Hello,

Any news for marquee ultraprogressbar ?

version:WinForms 9.2

Andrew Flick"]

• Could you describe what scenrios you would be using a marquee progress bar for? 

 I need a marque progress bar to show the user that something is happening during a web service or a database call, when I don't know how long the operation is going to take.

Andrew Flick"]

• Is it used as an editor (aka embedded in the grid), is it part of a popup?

 I don't need to use is as an editor.

Andrew Flick"]

• Is it ever going to need to switch between marquee and progress? 

This is a feature that I would like to have. I am developing UIs that look like the SQL Server 2005 setup, where I have at least two operations running sequentially. In the first part a web service is called and the progress bar should be marquee, and the next step being some transformations on the data retreived, in which case I am aware of how long is it going to take, so I prefer to switch the progress bar in progress mode.

Andrew Flick"]

• 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?

Answer to the first subquestion: no. Answer for the second one: I would like a bouncing style, but I don't care for choosing between them.

Best Regards,
Emanuel Haisiuc

Hi Andrew,

I'd say all of the features you've mentioned. If you can, please take a look at the DevExpress Marqee Progress Bar control. Also, I'd like to add the ability to start/stop the progress bar control in the indeterminate mode, i.e. make it listen to external events by utilizing a CallBack method.

Thank you for your attention to this issue.

Alex Fedyukov