What lib has Status Bar?

Hi,
This is a dumb question I know.
(vb6)
I wanted to try a sample I d'led that puts a progress bar in a status bar on
a form.
I added a form but can't find a status bar control. I assume it 's in some
library I need to reference but how do I find what library's contain what
controls? An hour in the msdn searching shows how to use a status bar but
says nothing about where they live.
Is there a search trick to list controls in all those libraries that show up
in Project|references?
If a person like me doesn't know where the control is, how do I go about
finding it? (other than posting dumb questions like this one.)

Thanks,
the eternal newbie

 

maybe there isn't a control available?
this is the only thing i can find in help about creating status bar.
"You can create a status bar by using the CreateStatusWindow function or by
using the CreateWindowEx function and specifying the STATUSCLASSNAME window
class."
etc.
more research...back to f1

 

Hola Mark.
Go to "Components" and add "Microsoft Windows Common Controls 6.0 (sp4)"

I believe it´s mscomctl.ocx but not "absolutely" sure about this

 

Gracias Jorge!
mio dice "Microsoft Windows Common Controls 6.0" (not sp4) maybe i'm due for
an update?
but anyway, there it is that little devil!
So the bigger question is, how would I find that without you having helped
me?
isn't there a search function for controls in librarys? or were you just
born with that knowledge?
`
Gracias otro vez
Saludos
Marcos

 

Mark, I can´t remember all the details (long time ago)
But one of the first things you have to do, when learning a language is to
find out what tools your IDE is packing.
So I remember loading each component, one by one, just to know where to find
them and what was their main function.
At the beginning I didn't care much about how to use them, just interested
in knowning what they were for
Knowing this, when you start a project you already have a pretty good idea
about what to use.

I believe some of these controls were updated in SP4 and others in SP5, but
again, I'm not sure.

--
Saludos, Ing. Jorge Jimenez, SICAD S.A., Costa Rica

 

Thanks again!
Buenos noches.
M

 

Search for this "Creating a Common Control Status Bar - Overview" at http://vbnet.mvps.org/ hopefully it will help.
Regards - Nathan

 

I happen to be using it in one of my apps. I don't know which one for sure, but it would have to be one of these four: Visual Basic For Applications, Visual Basic runtime objects and procedures, Visual Basic objects and procedures, or OLE Automation. I would bet on the latter, since the others are probably included by default. OLE Automation is the file STDOLE2.TLB

 

Thanks for the link Nathan,
Trying the samples I'm getting the following error:


Trying to run progress bar api sample
code copied/pasted from: http://vbnet.mvps.org/
"Creating a Common Control Progress Bar via API"

I'm getting the following error



this is in the form code:

error highlights "PROGRESS_CLASS" in the following line:

hProgBar = CreateWindowEx(0, PROGRESS_CLASS, vbNullString, _
WS_CHILD Or WS_VISIBLE Or _
IIf(Check1, PBS_SMOOTH, 0) Or _
IIf(Check2, PBS_VERTICAL, 0), _
0, 0, 0, 0, _
hwnd, 0, _
App.hInstance, ByVal 0)

error text:"Compile error Variable not defined"

although there is a bas module in the project with the following line:

Public Const ICC_PROGRESS_CLASS As Long = &H20 'progress

I noticed the diff between "ICC_PROGRESS_CLASS" and "PROGRESS_CLASS"

but if I change
hProgBar = CreateWindowEx(0, PROGRESS_CLASS, vbNullString, _
WS_CHILD Or WS_VISIBLE Or _
IIf(Check1, PBS_SMOOTH, 0) Or _
IIf(Check2, PBS_VERTICAL, 0), _
0, 0, 0, 0, _
hwnd, 0, _
App.hInstance, ByVal 0)
to
hProgBar = CreateWindowEx(0, ICC_PROGRESS_CLASS, vbNullString, _
WS_CHILD Or WS_VISIBLE Or _
IIf(Check1, PBS_SMOOTH, 0) Or _
IIf(Check2, PBS_VERTICAL, 0), _
0, 0, 0, 0, _
hwnd, 0, _
App.hInstance, ByVal 0)
I get Ambiguous name detected error....

what am I missing?

tia
Mark

http://vbnet.mvps.org/ hopefully it will help.

 

Sorry I can't help there Mark. I haven't actually tried anything with statusbars before.

I have just right clicked in my Toolbox and selected Additional Controls which then lists:
Microsoft StatusBar Control, version 5.0 (SP2)
Location C:\WINNT\system32\comctl32.ocx
&
Microsoft StatusBar Control, version 6.0
Location C:\WINNT\system32\MsComCtl.ocx

Regards - Nathan

 

That's interesting,
if i right click in the toolbox I get "Components" "Add tab" "Dockable" and
"Hide" , no "Additional Controls"...do you have a special add in loaded?

 

I was in VBA so I just went to VB5 and Components is the equivalent of Aditional Controls.
Regards - Nathan

 

I should have known that!