Progress Bar for unknown time

[swapnaoe]

Hi,
I have an application that writes data from PC to a 8052 microcontroller 's Flash.
It takes an accountable amount of time.I want to show a progress bar for the same but i cannt quantify the time(time it takes to complete writing all bytes to the falsh).I have an idea on progress bars with minimum and maximum limits known.I would like to know for unknown situation like my application
Can anyone please give me kick start tips for the same.

Regards,
Swapna

[albertw]

Hi,
I have an application that writes data from PC to a 8052 microcontroller 's Flash.
It takes an accountable amount of time.I want to show a progress bar for the same but i cannt quantify the time(time it takes to complete writing all bytes to the falsh).I have an idea on progress bars with minimum and maximum limits known.I would like to know for unknown situation like my application
Can anyone please give me kick start tips for the same.

Regards,
Swapna

hi
cheapest solution is to have your progressbar run continiously ...
as you can't tell the max-value you have little option to do otherwise.

[swapnaoe]

hi
cheapest solution is to have your progressbar run continiously ...
as you can't tell the max-value you have little option to do otherwise.

Hi, Thank u for the relpy but could you please elaborate on your solution.

[albertw]

Hi, Thank u for the relpy but could you please elaborate on your solution.

hi
i should put something like this within your progressbar-loop

if progressbar.val ue=maxvalue then progressbar.val ue=minvalue

here your progressbar will be 'reset' to startposition.
try to avoid values larger than maxvalue and smaller than minvalue
otherwise you will get an error.