In the past I've done something along these lines (and have described it as a throbber too!) by placing a button with a lightbulb icon (or similar) on the form (or in my case, on a panel on a status bar) and having a timer make it visible and invisible every half second.
The reason I used a button was so the user could click on it for more detailed progress info. Not a particularly nicely self-contained approach, but I never got round to turning into a component or similar. You could have a look at the JVCL libraries; maybe they've got something? We've used things like their "toast" windows to nice effect. C. -----Original Message----- From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of John Bird Sent: Wednesday, 11 February 2009 4:09 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: [DUG] Animated progress "Throbber" Is there any Delphi equivalent of a "throbber"? This is used when showing progress when the total length if a task in progress is not known so its useful to show something is happening. and is usually a small animated icon. Would be nice to have such a component to place on a foirm. Used a lot outside of Delphi - Examples are -IE7 when page loading - the animated rotating circle whown on a tab header while a page is loading, and gets replaced with the sites icon when done. -Firefox similar -Vista gives a progress bar with the highlight swishing along it but not changing length of the progress bar, also the animated circle mouse cursor. -Older versions of IE used to have an animated flag that waved while a page was loading - remember? (This visual component is called a throbber in browser circles). If I know the length then I can use a ProgressBar, but one does not always...and the Vista progress bar only shows on Vista of course. _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
