Progress Class

In This Topic

Inheritance Hierarchy
Syntax
Remarks
Example
Public Constructors
Public Methods
See Also

This class enables you to access the functions of the progress bar in EPLAN.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
Eplan.EplApi.Base.Progress

Syntax

C#
C++/CLI

public class Progress

public ref class Progress

Remarks

There are different kinds of progress bars. It can be created by functions and passed to another function as a parameter object (often in a Context). Please call Progress::EndPart(true) at the end to close the dialog. Please don't use steps (SetNeededSteps and Step methods) when a nested EPLAN progress (i.e. from API method) could be called afterwards.

Example

Example of using Progress class

Progress oProgress = new Progress("SimpleProgress");
oProgress.ShowImmediately();

//part 1
oProgress.BeginPart(25.0, "");
oProgress.SetActionText("part1");
oProgress.SetNeededSteps(1);
oProgress.Step(1);
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(2500);    // TODO: Some processing
oProgress.EndPart(false);

//part 2
oProgress.BeginPart(30.0, "");
oProgress.SetNeededSteps(3);            // call SetNeededSteps with the count of steps following
oProgress.SetActionText("part2 step1");
oProgress.Step(1);
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000);    // TODO: Some processing

oProgress.SetActionText("part2 step2");
oProgress.Step(1);
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000);    // TODO: Some processing

oProgress.SetActionText("part2 step3");
oProgress.Step(1);
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000);    // TODO: Some processing
oProgress.EndPart(false);

//part 3
oProgress.BeginPart(45.0, "");          // Here is a sum of 100% reached!
oProgress.SetActionText("part3");
oProgress.SetNeededSteps(1);
oProgress.Step(1);
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(4500);    // TODO: Some processing
oProgress.EndPart(true);                // The window is destroyed with the call EndPart(true) and the progress is prepared to be destroyed.

Progress progress = new Progress("SimpleProgress");
progress.SetAllowCancel(true);
progress.SetAskOnCancel(true);
progress.SetTitle("Replace parts");
progress.ShowImmediately();

DMObjectsFinder finder = new DMObjectsFinder(oProject);
ArticleReference[] articleReferences = finder.GetArticleReferences(null);
int nIteration = 0;
foreach (ArticleReference articleReference in articleReferences)
{
    // Set new values
    progress.BeginPart(100.0 / articleReferences.Length, "Iteration : " + (nIteration++).ToString());
    articleReference.PartNr = "New part number";
    articleReference.VariantNr = "New variant";
    articleReference.StoreToObject();
    new DeviceService().UpdateDevice(articleReference.ParentObject);
    progress.EndPart();
}

progress.EndPart(true);

Public Constructors

	Name	Description
	Progress Constructor	Overloaded.

Top

Public Methods

	Name	Description
	BeginPart	Starts a new segment. All parallel segments should result in a sum of 100%.
	Canceled	Queries whether the operation was canceled.
	Dispose	Destructor for deterministic finalization of Progress object.
	EndPart	Overloaded. Ends segment and closes the window when it is not used. Don't forget to call it at the end, otherwise a progress dialog may lock P8.
	GetProgress	For internal use only.
	SetActionText	Sets a new action text.
	SetAllowCancel	Allows canceling.
	SetAskOnCancel	Asks to confirm the cancel request.
	SetNeededParts	Specifies how many segments are required.
	SetNeededSteps	Indicates how many steps are required to reach 100%. E.g. used for loops.
	SetOverallActionText	Sets a new action text.
	SetTitle	Sets the title of the progress bar.
	ShowImmediately	Shows the progress bar without any further delay. When ShowImmediately isnt't called the dialog appears later (with delay), it prevents the dialog to show unnecessarily (to prevent that the progress flickers up for a short running actions).
	ShowLevel	Specifies the nesting level up to which a display is made.
	Step	Uses a step

Top

Reference

Progress Members
Eplan.EplApi.Base Namespace

Send Feedback