Following is a simple example of how to use the system progress meter - look
down in the lower left corner to see it working. Create a form with a single
button, then paste this code into the Click event procedure for the button.
Basically you initialize the progress meter with a number that represents
how many intervals there are, then you make successive calls to update the
progress meter with an incremental value. Finally you remove the meter. My
example shows it as used in a looping procedure but you can also adapt this
to a lengthy linear list of tasks.
You can create a more noticable progress meter by using a rectangle control
which you color based on the degree of completion of the task. My example of
this is on
www.daiglenet.com/msaccess.htm.
There is also a chapter in the Access Cookbook by Ken Getz, Paul Litwin, and
Andy Baron which describes how to make a reusable progress meter. You can
read this excerpt online at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d.../en-us/dnacbk02/html/odc_cookbookchapter8.asp
FWIW, I also like using the progress meter control from the FMS product
Total Access Components 2000. It has a richer set of features and can be
displayed anywhere on the form. (
www.fmsinc.com).
Private Sub Command12_Click()
Dim inti As Integer
'
' Initialize the progress meter
Application.SysCmd acSysCmdInitMeter, "Doing Stuff", 10000
For inti = 1 To 5000
Me.txtCounter = inti
'
' Increment the progress meter on each iteration
Application.SysCmd acSysCmdUpdateMeter, inti
' Occasionaly yield CPU to the OS so other stuff can happen
' the 77 is an arbitrary number - you can tune this however you
' want. You can leave this whole if...then out if you just want the
loop
' to have all CPU till
' it is done
If inti Mod 77 = 0 Then
DoEvents
End If
Next inti
'
' Remove the meter
Application.SysCmd acSysCmdRemoveMeter
End Sub
