Visible Use the Visible property to hide or show the toolbar.
Open The standard event where you would do any initialization, such as assigning icons or drop-down menus. The supplied Item parameter tells you the button that was pressed so that you can perform the appropriate action.ĭropDownMenuAction This event handler is called when a button that has a drop-down menu has an item on the menu selected. Refer to Toolbar in the Language Reference for the complete list.Īction This event handler is where your code handles button presses. You can have multiple toolbars in your app, but you can only add a single toolbar to each window.īelow are commonly used events, properties and methods for the Toolbar. The toolbar will appear at the bottom in the Shelf area. To add a toolbar to a Window, select the Window and then drag the toolbar from the Navigator onto the Window layout. You can preview the toolbar on other platforms by clicking one of the Toolbar preview mode buttons in the Toolbar toolbar. Some platforms will size all icons to that of the icon on the first button in the toolbar.Īfter adding items to the toolbar, you can reorder them by dragging an item to the left or right.
Use the Inspector to change the properties of the buttons that you add to the toolbar.įor best results, you should ensure that all your toolbar icons are the same size. Xojo warns against this function as it can lead to undesired results.To add a button to the toolbar, click the "Add Tool Item" button in the Toolbar Editor toolbar. This will pause your work for a specified time duration and allow other things to kick in and update. The hackiest solution of all is to use app.doevents after calling progressbar.refresh. Use a helper application, the most complex solution, but you’ll get the best the performance and a smooth updating interface. Use a thread, like others have suggested, so that the window can be updated while the thread is running. You must use Refresh here as invalidate is coalesced and won’t update until your task has finished. Use a short delay timer to do your work, so that there’s a gap between the action being selected and the task starting, giving Window services a few milliseconds to make the progressbar visible. You can fix this with a bunch of solutions. Long and the short of your problem is that Window services haven’t yet had time to make the progressbar visible, so any calls to updating it are just wasting cycles.
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