Progressbar slow / General request

hi dear codejock team,

i've noticed an issue with the progressbar control:
it seems to slow down the app speed dramatically (vb6) without any cause.

just try:

    progress1.Max = 1000
    For i = 1 To 1000
        DoEvents
        progress1.Value = i
    Next

with a default progressbar (from the ms common controls) it takes < 1 sec
and using the codejock progressbar it almost takes 3 seconds!

what could it be?

2nd - as a satisfied codejock costumer i'd like to ask if it's possible to split up the controls into extra ocx?
when using only ONE control of the whole collection it takes several seconds to load it and really bloats little apps.
i hope you could do this also because there's a subclassing bug in the tabstrip control which causes lots of crashes.

thanks in advance

What other settings are you using on your CJ progressbar?  Are you using the SkinFramework as well? What OS?

I'm trying to reproduce the problem, but while the CJ is a bit slower (particularly when using Office2007 mode), it is not nearly as slow as you are seeing.

Maybe you could try only updating the ProgressBar value if 1) The new value is different than the current value, and 2) the new value would actually move the position of the drawn value.

To do this, you could calculate the Max value based on the width of the ProgressBar instead of your real maximum value. Something like:

Dim l_Count As Long: l_Count = 3000    Me.ProgressBar1.Max = Me.ScaleX(Me.ProgressBar1.Width, Me.ScaleMode, vbPixels)    For i = 1 To l_Count       l_Value = i * (Me.ProgressBar1.Max / l_Count)       If l_Value <> Me.ProgressBar1.Value Then          Me.ProgressBar1.Value = l_Value       End If    Next i

Also fuxi, what's the subclassing bug you mentioned in the TabStrip? Could you start a new thread with some more information on this (or point me to an existing thread) so that I can add it to the TODO list?

Thanks a lot.