Re: [OWLNext-users] Upgrading to 7.1.0 and TGauge

[Vidar H. <vid...@ou...>]

On 2022-04-19 18:43, Damon Register wrote:
> With some really great help from Jogy and Vidar Hasfjord
> I have made to great progress in updating my project to MSVC 2022
> and OWLNext 7.1.0.

Good! Thanks for the feedback.

> Does TProgressBar have the ability to show a continuous bar along with 
> the
> printed value?  I checked the OWLNext help for TProgressBar and didn't 
> find
> either of those features. 

TProgressBar is a thin wrapper around the native Progress Bar control in 
Windows. For full documentation, see the Windows API documentation. The 
PBS_SMOOTH control style can be used to show a smooth bar instead of the 
default segmented bar. Showing a numerical value is not supported, but 
you can use an accompanying Static control for that.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/controls/progress-bar-control-styles

> If this can't be done with TProgressBar, could I persuade the 
> developers to
> bring back TGauge?

Persuade me, you can not. Personally, I want to see the core of OWLNext 
shrink further. Albeit simpler, the advantage with TProgressBar is that 
you automatically get the default look and functionality of the native 
Windows UI. That said, TGauge is not gone! It was just moved to OWLExt, 
since it no longer encapsulates a native Windows control. If you want 
it, it is there ("owlext/gauge.h").

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Regards,
Vidar Hasfjord