Zeal ProgressBar Control Version 1.0
Copyright (c) 2000 Hai Li, Zeal SoftStudio
Date: June 12, 2000
http://www.zealsoftstudio.com/ (English)
http://www.nease.net/~zealsoft/ (Chinese)
E-Mail: info@zealsoftstudio.com


What's this
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This control displays a Setup-like progress bar. The 
percent completed is printed in the middle of the bar 
and it changes color as the status bar passes over it.
Source code is included.

This is a CARDWARE. If you want to use it, please send
a postcard(not e-mail) to the author. The address is
     Hai Li
     No. 1607 Unit 133
     Beijing Institute of Tech.
     Beijing 100081
     China

No support available if you don't send a postcard to me.

Chinese users
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If you can read Chinese, please visit to 
http://articles.126.com to get more information on my 
Chinese book, which is a complete guide to programming 
ActiveX controls. In the companion CD-ROM, you can find
more ActiveX samples.

How to use
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Visual Basic source code is included, and it can be 
compiled in Visual Basic 5.0, 6.0 or higher. Start
Visual Basic, open ZProgBar.vbp, and then select the 
menu File|Make ZProgBar.ocx to compile the project into 
ZProgBar.ocx. Then you can use this control in your 
projects.

Properties
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There are four properties only applied to this control.

  >> Max property
  Description: Returns or sets the ProgressBar control's 
               maximum value.
  Data type: Single
  Default: 100

  >> Min property
  Description: Returns or sets the ProgressBar control's 
               minimum value.
  Data type: Single
  Default: 0

  >> Orientation property
  Description: Returns or sets a value that determines 
               the orientation (horizontal or vertical) 
               of the object.
  Data type: Integer
  Default: 0 (zOrientationHorizontal)
  Remarks: If the value is 0 (zOrientationHorizontal), the
           control is oriented horizontally. If the value 
           is 1 (zOrientationVertical), the control is 
           oriented vertically.

  >> Value Property
  Description: Returns/sets a number that specifies the 
               value of the ProgressBar control.
  Data type: Single
  Default: 50
  
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History
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Version 1.0 Initial version.