Can't update label in status strip 2

[Mike Lewis]

Hi All,

I am using C# Express. I am fairly new to C# and .NET, and have just finished a small one-form application.

My problem is that I can't get the label in my status strip to work.

I placed a status strip control on the form, and used its built-in Add button to add a label and a progresss bar. The controls are named ssStatus, ssLabel and ssProgress respectively.

In my program's main loop, I call a routine to update the pogress display:

// Update the progress bar and label
ssStatus.Visible = true;
ssLabel.Text = "Processing " + nCount.ToString();
ssProgress.Minimum = 0;
ssProgress.Maximum = tnMax;
ssProgress.Value = tnCount;

I can see the progress bar being correctly updated, but I don't see any text in the label. I've used the debugger to check that the label's Visible is True, and that it's wide enough to hold my text. And if I set the label's text at design time, it shows up correctly.

Can anyone see what I am doing wrong?

Mike


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[sajidi99]

Hello,

Try using this every time you update the label text:

Application.DoEvents();

Hope this helps


Ch Saj

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[JurkMonkey]

// Update the progress bar and label
ssStatus.Visible = true;
ssLabel.Text = "Processing " + nCount.ToString();
ssProgress.Minimum = 0;
ssProgress.Maximum = tnMax;
ssProgress.Value = tnCount;

Application.DoEvents();

Do what sajidi99 suggested but do it after you make all GUI changes.

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[Gorkem]

Make sure that the Autosize property is set to true.. otherwise, if you have 0 length for the label at design time, and the label size is too small, during runtime, it will not resize the label to fit the text, hence the problem not seeing any text in your label.

Cheers,

G.



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[Mike Lewis]

Application.DoEvents(); did it. I should have guessed it was something like that (I was thrown by the fact the progress bar was updated even though the label wasn't).

Thanks Ch Saj and JurkMonkey.

Gorkem: Thanks also for your suggestion re Autosize. I did try that, but in fact it made no difference in this case because I had already sized the label to hold the largest likely text.

Mike



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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

My Visual FoxPro site: www.ml-consult.co.uk