Zeal ProgressBar Control Version 1.2
Copyright (c) 2000 - 2002 Hai Li, Zeal SoftStudio
Date: December 21, 2002
http://www.zealsoft.com/ (English)
http://zealsoft.nease.net/ (Chinese)
E-Mail: support@zealsoft.com


What's this
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This control displays a Setup-like progress bar. The 
percent completed is printed in the middle of the bar 
and it changes color as the status bar passes over it.
Source code is included.

This is a CARDWARE. If you want to use it, please send
a postcard(not e-mail) to the author. The address is
     Hai Li(Zeal Progress Bar)
     No. 1607 Unit 133
     Beijing Institute of Tech.
     Beijing 100081
     China

No support available if you don't send a postcard to me ;-)

Chinese users
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If you can read Chinese, please visit to 
http://articles.126.com to get more information on my 
Chinese book, which is a complete guide to programming 
ActiveX controls. In the companion CD-ROM, you can find
more ActiveX samples.

How to use
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Both ActiveX contorl and .Net component are included in
this package. 

If you want to use the ActiveX control, you can find 
ZPrgBar.ocx in the PrgBar\VB6 directory. Please use 
following command from the commmand line to register 
the control.
	RegSvr32 <path>ZprgBar.ocx
This file requires MSVBVM60.DLL. If you can find this 
DLL under Windows\System or WinNT\System32 directory,
please download VB 6.0 runtime DLLs from 
http://www.zealsoft.com/progbar/.

If you want to use the .NET component, please select 
menu Tools|Customize the toolbox in Visual Studio.NET
and click .NET Framework Components tab. Select Browse
button to locate the ZPrgbar.dll in the PrgBar\VB.Net 
directory, and then a new Progress icon will appear in 
the Component toolbox.

Please refer to Properties section for further 
information.

How to recompile
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For Visual Basic 5.0/6.0 users, please open the project
VB6\ZProgBar.vbp in Visual Basic IDE and then select 
the menu File|Make ZProgBar.ocx to compile the project 
into ZProgBar.ocx. Then you can use this control in 
your projects.

For Visual Basic.Net users, please open the solution
VB.Net\ZPrgBar.sln in Visual Basic.Net and then select
the Build button from the toolbar to make the 
ZProgBar.dll.

Properties
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There are five properties only applied to this control.

  >> BarText property
  Description: Returns or sets the text of ProgressBar 
	       control.
  Data type: String
  Default: "%"

  >> Max property
  Description: Returns or sets the ProgressBar control's 
               maximum value.
  Data type: Single
  Default: 100

  >> Min property
  Description: Returns or sets the ProgressBar control's 
               minimum value.
  Data type: Single
  Default: 0

  >> Orientation property
  Description: Returns or sets a value that determines 
               the orientation (horizontal or vertical) 
               of the object.
  Data type: Integer(Enum)
  Default: 0 (zOrientationHorizontal)
  Remarks: If the value is 0 (zOrientationHorizontal), the
           control is oriented horizontally. If the value 
           is 1 (zOrientationVertical), the control is 
           oriented vertically.

  >> Value Property
  Description: Returns/sets a number that specifies the 
               value of the ProgressBar control.
  Data type: Single
  Default: 50
  
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More controls
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History
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Version 1.2 December 21, 2002  Add BarText property(By Manfred Schlageter)
Version 1.1  January  6, 2002  Add VB.NET support
Version 1.0     June 12, 2000  Initial version.