Click on ProgressBar

[Monkeh]

Hi all,

I'm about to start coding an app with some timers that will be displayed as progress bars. Is there a way that the progress bar itself can be clicked on? My thinking is that instead of having a button to select the timer to adjust it I could just click the progress bar itself which would then take me to a new screen to enter a new value for the timer. It would save on screen space and possibly be more intuitive for the user.

I'm guessing that it wouldn't work in the same way as a click event for a button (eg Sub button1_click), or would it???. Would I have to seperately detect the user clicking in the same area of the screen as the progressbar or is there a simpler way to tie the click event directly to the progressbar?

Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[NJDude]

You should use SeekBars instead.

 

[spcw1234]

You could put a button over the progress bar and set the alpha value to 0 so that is it invisible.

 

[Monkeh]

Thanks for the reply.

Seekbars are an option I'm considering. I haven't used them in b4a yet but I have downloaded a few apps from Google Play (no idea what they were coded with) with seekbars and quite often they've been clunky to use. You want to set it at a value of, say, 100 and you're constantly jumping around between the low 90s and 106/7+ trying to get it to exactly 100. This is more apparent the higher the maximum value of the seekbar.

I will try my app with seekbars first but would like the option of letting users be more exact with the timers without getting frustrated.

 

[Monkeh]

You could put a button over the progress bar and set the alpha value to 0 so that is it invisible.

Thanks. That actually seems kinda obvious now you've said it but I suppose that's what a forum like this is for, to help those who can't see the wood for the trees.

Thanks, much appreciated.