animated loading bar that grows, yes me newb

[theswitch]

yes this is an easy one, I'm sorry to take up your time with this question, but atleast I added that little bit onto the end of the thread name

anyhow, first you should know this loading bar will not be for loading up an ags game or area as I belive it doesn't need one

but

I want one anyway

sooo ofcourse I just read that similar thread about makeing a bar reflect an int value and the one reply about useing a button size to create a dynamic bar wich was from Mr Pablo (Mr I think?)

sooo

I would use repeaditly exicute (spelling ) to make this happen I presume, the bar would appear and start loading (imaginary data ofcourse) from a click on a seperate gui button

the real reason why I'm asking this in the forums is because I was working steady on a project and then left it for oh. . . 5 months or so, so I have to get up to speed agien EDIT: wich would be my first AGS project

[Thorsell]

Maybe you could make an animating object? That, I think, is easier.

[monkey0506]

You could use Button.Width and Button.ClipImage.

Just make sure that Button.ClipImage is true and set the width with some sort of loop:

Code: ags

int i = 0;
while (i < 50) { // wait half a second, then update the bar image by 2%
  btnBar.Width = (i * 2);
  i++;
  Wait(20);
  }

You would, of course, set the Button's image to that of the full bar in the editor.

[theswitch]

 

thanks, that should do the trick