New Progress Bar Control

EDIT:
Ok guys, the next version has been released and is available from the same download link as before. I am looking for an actual name to call this rather than just progress bar. So go ahead and feed them to me.
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Well I saw the new SwiftKit and I saw this really cool progress bar control that they had. I thought it would be useful to have, but its not like they would just hand it over. So I decided to make my own version.

I whipped this up late last night, so it isn't perfect. I am sure there are many ways to shorten the code and I bet it can be made better, but for now I'll leave it as is. I am going to add the ability to change the font of the percentage, but that will come later.

I've never even so much as drawn with an API before so this was completely new to me. Also I've never made a usercontrol, but this was some good experience.

Version: 1.0.1

Features:

Code:

Able to set the background color (using 2 colors)
Able to set the fill color (using 2 colors)
Able to enable, disable gradients
Able to change font color
Able to disable percentage
Able to add a drop shadow
Able to set border color
Min and Max values.

Update Log:

Code:

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'|                   UPDATE LOG                 |
'| times are all central time (GMT -6)          |
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'| June  8, 2008 - 11:30PM                      |
'|               - Work Begins                  |
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'| June 10, 2008 - 11:10PM                      |
'|               - stream-lined code            |
'|                 removed many unnecessary     |
'|                 calculations and calls.      |
'|               - added Min and Max value      |
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Benchmark Tests

Code:

Tested at 10000 loops
Microsoft Common Controls: 812ms
ProgressBar Control V 1.0.0: 5250ms | 84.5% less efficient at 10000 loops
ProgressBar Control V 1.0.1: 4688ms | 82.7% less efficient at 10000 loops

Pictures:


Download
www.pspools.net/jdh/Downloads/ProgressBar.ctl

 

Looks nice, however I would recommend adding the Min/Max Functions, for user simplicity. Other than that it's very nice. I hope that you keep updating it.

 

Very very nice. Make more

 

Sweet as ima download this and leech it
Btw why didn't you just use shapes to show the progress? (If you did use shapes you wouldn't be able to do the drop shadow effect)

Good job.

 

What are you saying here covey lol? Are you trying to say I wouldn't have been able to draw a drop shadow if I used shapes?

Well the main reason I didn't do that is because I didn't want to use any controls on this, unless I had to throw in a timer or something. I wanted this to all be done with code.

 

Still great work, i'll actually learn from this when i download it because i've never used the drawing API

 

Great work, it look's really good. Definitely going to use as a reference for me. Will help alot. Thank's