Progress Bar

Overview

It is a bar that can demonstrate the progress of a particular request or a loading of an event. You can have text that indicates the current status of the ProgressBar and can be used both horizontally and vertically.

Source code

ProgressBarSample

import totalcross.sys.Convert;
import totalcross.sys.Settings;
import totalcross.sys.Vm;
import totalcross.ui.Container;
import totalcross.ui.Control;
import totalcross.ui.MainWindow;
import totalcross.ui.ProgressBar;
import totalcross.ui.dialog.MessageBox;
import totalcross.ui.gfx.Color;
import totalcross.util.UnitsConverter;

public class ProgressBarSample extends MainWindow {
    ProgressBar  pbHYellow, pbVRed, pbVCyan, pbHRed, pbHPurple;
    int gap = UnitsConverter.toPixels(DP + 8);

    public ProgressBarSample() {
        setUIStyle(Settings.MATERIAL_UI);
    }

    @Override
    public void initUI() {
        try {
            super.initUI();

            Container sc = new Container();
            sc.setInsets(gap, gap, gap, gap);
            add(sc, LEFT, TOP, FILL, FILL);

            pbHPurple = new ProgressBar();
            pbHPurple.max = 50;
            pbHPurple.highlight = true;
            pbHPurple.suffix = " of " + pbHPurple.max;
            pbHPurple.textColor = 0xAAAA;
            pbHPurple.drawText = true;
            sc.add(pbHPurple, LEFT, TOP, FILL, PREFERRED);

            // endless ProgressBarSample
            pbHYellow = new ProgressBar();
            pbHYellow.max = width / 4; // max-min = width of the bar
            pbHYellow.setBackColor(Color.YELLOW);
            pbHYellow.setForeColor(Color.ORANGE);
            pbHYellow.prefix = "Loading, please wait...";
            pbHYellow.drawText = true;
            sc.add(pbHYellow, LEFT, AFTER + gap, FILL, PREFERRED);

            pbHRed = new ProgressBar();
            pbHRed.max = 50;
            pbHRed.setEndless();
            pbHRed.setBackForeColors(Color.DARK, Color.RED);
            sc.add(pbHRed, LEFT, AFTER + gap, FILL, FONTSIZE + 50);

            final int max = Settings.onJavaSE ? 2000 : 200;
            // vertical ones
            pbVCyan = new ProgressBar();
            pbVCyan.vertical = true;
            pbVCyan.max = max;
            pbVCyan.textColor = Color.BLUE;
            pbVCyan.setBackColor(Color.CYAN);
            pbVCyan.setForeColor(Color.GREEN);
            sc.add(pbVCyan, RIGHT, AFTER + gap, PREFERRED, FILL);

            pbVRed = new ProgressBar();
            pbVRed.vertical = true;
            pbVRed.max = 50;
            pbVRed.setBackForeColors(Color.RED, Color.DARK);
            sc.add(pbVRed, BEFORE - gap, SAME, FONTSIZE + 50, SAME);

            onSwapFinished();
        } catch (Exception ee) {
            MessageBox.showException(ee, true);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onSwapFinished() {
        final int ini = Vm.getTimeStamp();
        repaintNow();
        // runs the bench test
        int max = pbVCyan.max;
        for (int i = max; --i >= 0;) {
            int v = pbHPurple.getValue();
            v = (v + 1) % (pbHPurple.max + 1);
            Control.enableUpdateScreen = false; // since each setValue below updates the screen, we disable it to let it paint all at once at the end
            pbHPurple.setValue(v);
            pbVCyan.setValue(i);
            pbHYellow.setValue(5); // increment value
            pbHRed.setValue(v);
            Control.enableUpdateScreen = true;
            pbVRed.setValue(v);
            if (Settings.onJavaSE) {
                Vm.sleep(20);
            }
        }
    }
}

Attributes

Type	Name	Description
int	max	Progress Bar maximum value.
int	value	Current value of progress Bar.
String	prefix	It is the text that appears to the left of the value, remembering that the text output is prefix + value + sufix
String	suffix	It is the text that appears to the right of the value, remembering that the text output is prefix + value + suffix
boolean	drawText	It will indicate if the text will be displayed in progress bar or not, by default it comes as false.
boolean	drawValue	It will indicate if the value will be displayed in the progress bar.

Methods

Type	Name	Description
Constructor	ProgressBar()	Instances a ProgressBar with the minimum values 0 and maximum value 100.
Constructor	ProgressBar(int min, int max)	Instances a ProgressBar with the values passed in the variables min and max.
Void	setEndless()	Use in a horizontal ProgressBar to leave it without end.
Void	setValue(int n)	Updates the current progressbar value and draws the ProgressBar with the updated state.
Void	setValue(int value, String prefix, String suffix)	Updates the current value of progressBar and draws it again with the updated state and with texts before the value and after the value.

References

• See the Java Docs for more information.
• You can check the example contained in the SDK, in tc.samples.api.ui ProgressBarSample.