ProgressBar Object

Description

The ProgressBar object represents an Inventor dialog to show the progress of a certain operation or a series of operations.

Methods

Name	Description
Close	Terminates the progress bar.
UpdateProgress	Updates the progress bar by incrementing the progress step by one. This method should be called as many times as the number of steps provided in the CreateProgressBar method.

Properties

Name	Description
Application	Returns the top-level parent application object. When used the context of Inventor, an Application object is returned. When used in the context of Apprentice, an ApprenticeServer object is returned.
Message	Gets and sets the string specifying the message for the progress bar. The string can contain multiple prompt strings (“%s”) the actual values for which are specified in the MessagePrompts property before each call to UpdateProgress.
Type	Returns an ObjectTypeEnum indicating this object's type.

Events

Name	Description
OnCancel	Event that is fired when the user chooses the cancel button on the progress bar.

Accessed From

Application.CreateProgressBar

Samples

Name	Description
Using Inventor's progress bars	Demonstrates using Inventor's progress bar.

Version

Introduced in version 2010