Using Progress Bar to display total bytes "read"

[Nicholas]

I am having programmatic amnesia! I cannot recall how to get the total file size and then diplay total bytes read &quot;so far&quot; using a progress bar.<br>
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Any suggestions?<br>
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[DarkMercenary44]

You'll want to use FileLen() function to get lenght of file in bytes.
Stated from Visual Basic 6 Complete

FileLen(filename)

The FileLen() function returns a long integer value indicating the file's lenght. The name of the file whose length you want to find out is passed as an argument to the fuction. The following statement
MsgBox FileLen(&quot;.\DOCS\MYDOCUMENT.TXT&quot
displays the lenght of the specifed file in a message box.
The FileLen() Function is different from the LOF() function, which returns the lenght of a file that has already been opened.

heres the code:

myfilelenght = FileLen(&quot;yourfile.txt&quot
progressbar1.max = myfilelenght

I don't know how you read a file byte by byte, but withing your loop add a byte counter, and withing the same loop set the progressbar1.value to equal that byte counter. So far I only read my files line by line, I set my progressbar1.max to the number of lines in a file, and then increase it by one in a loop when I read one more line.

Hope that helps. Email me if you want more info darkmercenary44@earthlink.net


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