Moving a control to the statusbar

[Guest]

What I need is to be able to get the location of a panel on the status bar.
When I was looking to add a progressbar to the statusbar I learned that the
best and maybe only way to do this is by moving the progressbar at run time
and making it fit in one of the panels. Well I found a VUMeter control that I
would like to use in my project but need to be able to grab the location of a
panel then apply that location to the VUMeter. Can someone help me get this
information from a panel? Thank you

 

[Guest]

Ok I found this code but when I turn on Option Strict I get lost of errors.
But it looks like a pretty cool class. Maybe someone here can help me tweak
it?
http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/StatusProgressBar.asp

 

[Chris Calzaretta]

Why do you not just build a windows custom control put a button and a status
bar on it. create a couple of propertys to update the stats bar. Put an
event to catch the button click.
Simple way to create that control.

 

[Guest]

Would you mind sending me an example of this? I would like to check this out.
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Thanks!

 

[Chris Dunaway]

What errors are you getting?

 

[Guest]

I was getting some latebinding errors but it is all good now. I re-worked the
code with a friend of mine and fixed it up nicely Thank you

 

[Chris Dunaway]

In answer to your original question, the StatusBar has a Panels
property that exposes the panels.

I didn't the article mentioned above, but to place a control inside the
StatusBar, you only need to set its parent property to the StatusBar
and then set its location and size as necessary. You can also set it's
anchor and dock properties as well.

Chris

 

[Guest]

Thank you. Even though this project is done I will use that information else
where.