Anyone ever do a reverse Progress Bar (right-to-left)?

[EnigmaV8]

Has anyone done a reverse progress bar? (starts from the right)

I'm trying to do a progress bar where it goes to 100% at the right and then resets and goes to 100% on the left. I rigged up a quickie ghetto way with reversing the progress color and background, thereby giving the illusion that it's going to the left on the second pass, but you see a slight line from the dark background on the 2nd pass. It looks pretty decent though.

So how can you start the progress from the right side? Is this even possible?

Here's what I got so far:

#include <GUIConstants.au3>

GUICreate("My GUI Progressbar",300,100,-1,-1)
$progressbar1 = GUICtrlCreateProgress (25,40,250,20,$PBS_SMOOTH)
GUICtrlSetColor(-1,000066)
$progressbar2 = GUICtrlCreateProgress (25,40,250,20,$PBS_SMOOTH)
GUICtrlSetColor(-1,0xD4D0C8)
GUICtrlSetBkColor(-1,000066)
GUISetState()

$wait = 20

While 1
        For $i = 0 To 100 Step 1
            GUICtrlSetData($progressbar1,$i)
            Sleep($wait)
        Next
        For $i = 0 To 100 Step 1
            GUICtrlSetData($progressbar2,(100 - $i))
            Sleep($wait)
        Next    
WEnd

[Uriziel01]

I dont think that this is possible (anyway even if it is, thah is not easy for sure)

My idea for now

#include <GUIConstants.au3>

GUICreate("My GUI Progressbar",300,100,-1,-1)
$progressbar1 = GUICtrlCreateProgress (25,40,250,20,$PBS_SMOOTH)
GUICtrlSetColor(-1,000066)
$progressbar2 = GUICtrlCreateProgress (25,40,250,20,$PBS_SMOOTH)
GUICtrlSetColor(-1,0xD4D0C8)
GUICtrlSetBkColor(-1,000066)
GUISetState()
$label=GUICtrlCreateLabel("",27,42,248,16)
GUICtrlSetBkColor(-1,0xFFFFFF)
GUICtrlSetState(-1,$GUI_HIDE)
$wait = 20

While 1
        For $i = 0 To 100 Step 1
            GUICtrlSetData($progressbar1,$i)
            Sleep($wait)
        Next
        GUICtrlSetState(-1,$GUI_SHOW)
        GUICtrlSetData($progressbar2,(100))
        For $i = 0 To 245 Step 5
            GUICtrlSetPos ($label, 27,42,245-$i,16)
            Sleep($wait*2)
        Next    
WEnd

Edited March 7, 2008 by Uriziel01

[EnigmaV8]

Not sure how that's any different than my method (except unnecessarily complicated), but.... okay.

[martin]

...So how can you start the progress from the right side? Is this even possible?

..

There are some ideas in this thread which could be adapted easily to make a reverse version.

[EnigmaV8]

There are some ideas in this thread which could be adapted easily to make a reverse version.

No I'm afraid that has nothing to do with reversing direction, just changing the look of the bar.

Mine works fine enough. It looks good for what I need, but it's not universal since it only works witht eh standard Win2k/XP grey windows. Thanks everyone.

[martin]

No I'm afraid that has nothing to do with reversing direction, just changing the look of the bar.

Post 3 in that thread uses exactly the same idea as Uriziel01 used for a label but with a Pic.

If you make a very small change to post 3 in that thread you get this, but you need

saved in the script directory first.
#include <GUIConstants.au3>

$gui = GUICreate("My GUI"); will create a dialog box that when displayed is centered
$pic = guictrlcreatepic("gradientbar.bmp",20,50,5,15)
GUISetState (@SW_SHOW)
for $n = 1 to 200
    ControlMove($gui,"",$pic,200-$n + 20,50,5 + $n,15)
    sleep(20)
Next

while guigetmsg() <> -3
    
    WEnd