How to control Progress Bar in Visual Basic 2008 when a user clicks Button 1 or Button 2?

Question

I have just gotten into software development and I was wondering I have just installed Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition and started building my first Windows Form Application. Here is where I am stuck, when a user clicks button 1 I want them to see a marquee progress bar and see text or an image that says Enabled, but not stop or disappear until they click button 2 , also when a user clicks button 1 I want to run a task in the background while the user sees the marquee progress bar and image/text and the task to end when the person clicks button 2. Hopefully I am not speaking gibberish and you people understand what I am saying because like I said, I extremely new at this but slowly, very slowly, trying to understand.

Answer 1

instead of progress bar use slider with min and max value when slider reaches max value reset it to min value.

Answer 2

Try this:

Add a label, a timer and 2 buttons.

Size your form to 300 by 300.

Cut and paste this into the code pane.

Play around with the "x" value and the timer interval.

Public Class Form1

    Dim x, y As Long

    Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal Sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick

        x = x - 5

        Label1.Location = New Point(x, y)

        If x < -20 Then x = 300

    End Sub

    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

        x = 350

        y = 10

        Button1.Text = "Start"

        Timer1.Enabled = True

    End Sub

    Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click

        Button2.Text = "Stop"

        Timer1.Enabled = False

    End Sub

End Class

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