Styles for the Progress Control

 

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When you initially create the progress control (CProgressCtrl::Create), use the dwStyle parameter to specify the desired window styles for your progress control. The following list details the applicable window styles. The control ignores any window style other than the ones listed here. You should always create the control as a child window, usually of a dialog box parent.

Window style	Effect
WS_BORDER	Creates a border around the window.
WS_CHILD	Creates a child window (should always be used for CProgressCtrl).
WS_CLIPCHILDREN	Excludes the area occupied by child windows when you draw within the parent window. Used when you create the parent window.
WS_CLIPSIBLINGS	Clips child windows relative to each other.
WS_DISABLED	Creates a window that is initially disabled.
WS_VISIBLE	Creates a window that is initially visible.
WS_TABSTOP	Specifies that the control can receive focus when the user presses the TAB key to move to it.

In addition, you can specify two styles that apply only to the progress control, PBS_VERTICAL and PBS_SMOOTH.

Use PBS_VERTICAL to orient the control vertically, rather than horizontally. Use PBS_SMOOTH to fill the control completely, rather than displaying small delineated squares that fill the control incrementally.

Without PBS_SMOOTH style:

With PBS_SMOOTH and PBS_VERTICAL styles:

For more information, see Window Styles in the MFC Reference.

See Also

Using CProgressCtrl