You can try ctl32_progressbar - a Progress Bar class instead.

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>I've develop a DLL with somu utility functions to use with my VFP programs.
>The last one is a function that, in my hope, show an indipendent window with a Fake-ProgressBar MARQUEE typed.
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>My operations in the DLL are:
>1) I register (function RegisterClassMarquee) a window class named "SIMPLEBAR" that use a WindowProcedure ("MarqueeWndProc")
>2) In the WM_CREATE message i create a Progress Bar With MARQUEE Style
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>from VFP:
>1) I declare the dll function StartMarquee(HWND nHwnd) and i call It
>2) the window appear ... without progress bar ... but if i move the windiow progress bar appear ... freezed ... the squares in the control don't moves ... but if i move the window putting the progress bar poutside the screen and returning it in the screen i see that progress bar has progressed 8))) ...
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>The question is: Why my progress bar don't move normally, without forcing the rwfresh of the window ? If I create the progress Bar directly in a VFP window the progress bar do it's work.
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>Can Anyone help me ?
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