How To: Using the Progress Indicator in web applications

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First, the Progress Indicator User Control can be dragged from the toolbox to the web form.

In this example, we execute a "long running task" and we want to notify the user about its progress using a progress bar.

In the web panel we program the following:

Event Test1
    LongRunningTask.Submit('')
Endevent

Note that the code has to be submitted (executed asynchronously).

The LongRunningTask code is as follows:

//do something that takes some time
//ProgressIndicator is defined as: Progress (GeneXus.Common.UI)
&ProgressIndicator.Type = ProgressIndicatorType.Determinate
&ProgressIndicator.ShowWithTitle("Executing action")
&ProgressIndicator.Value = 10
//do something that takes some time
&ProgressIndicator.Value = 30
//do something that takes some time
&ProgressIndicator.Value = 70
//do something that takes some time
&ProgressIndicator.Value = 100
//do something that takes some time
&ProgressIndicator.Hide()

Style of the Progress Indicator

By default, the progress indicator for the web is assigned to the GXProgressBar class under the custom nodes of the Theme.

The classes progress-bar-title and progress-bar are descendants of GXProgressBar and may be customized if necessary by using the Theme editor.

You can make changes to it or create a child node of GXProgressBar and set the class to the control at runtime as follows:

&ProgressIndicator.Class = "progress-bar-success"