Progress Bar

[alekol]

HI.
Is it possible to set progress bar size larger than MAX_INT and how?

thanks

[TheTraveler]

You could try this idea. Set the bountries to be 0 to 100. Then use this:

    NUMBER  nPosition;
    NUMBER  nIndex;
    NUMBER  nSize;
Begin
    nPostion = ((nIndex * 100) / nSize);

End;

So the nIndex should be where you are in whatever you are doing and the nSize should be the Total size of whatever you are doing. So nPosition is where you are between 0 to 100.

Now, keep in mind, the datatype NUMBER doesn't store floating point numbers. So it will automatically round down to the nearest integer.

VERY IMPORTANT: You must multiply the index by 100 first before you divide it by your size. You see, Install Shield doesn't do floating point calculations. If you don't believe me, try this.

    STRING strMsg;
Begin
    nPostion = ((nIndex / nSize) * 100);
    Sprintf(strMsg, "%d", nPostion);
    MessageBox(strMsg, INFORMATION);

    nPostion = ((nIndex * 100) / nSize);
    Sprintf(strMsg, "%d", nPostion);
    MessageBox(strMsg, INFORMATION);