The progress bar is a widget for visually representing the progress status of a given job/task.

• Adding a Progressbar
• Using Progressbar Styles
• Using the Progressbar
• Configuring the Progressbar
• Using Progressbar Callbacks

• Progressbar Widget API
• A Progressbar Example

This widget is used to display the progress status of a given job. It inherits from the layout widget, so all function concerning the layout widget is used on the progressbar widget.

This is how to create a progressbar widget.

Evas_Object *pb = elm_progressbar_add(win);

This widget has the following styles:

• “default”
• “wheel” (simple style, no text, no progression, only “pulse” effect is available)

By default, the progressbar does not show a label or an icon, and the unit label is set to “%.0f % %”.

This is how to set a label (in this example, it is named “Test label”).

elm_object_text_set(pb, "Test label");

An icon is set with elm_object_part_content_set() using the partname “icon”.

elm_object_part_content_set(pb, "icon", icon_object);

The unit label format string can be modified using a “printf” style format. We set it to be a float number with two decimals.

elm_progressbar_unit_format_set(pb, "%1.2f%%");

The progressbar pulse mode is activated to make the progressbar loop infinitely between the start and end position.

elm_progressbar_pulse_set(pb, EINA_TRUE);
elm_progressbar_pulse(pb, EINA_TRUE);

It can be inverted. In that mode, the values are inverted so that the high values are on the left and the low values on the right.

elm_progressbar_inverted_set(pb, EINA_TRUE);

The progressbar emits the “changed” signal when the progress value changes. The value is changed with the elm_progressbar_value_set() function. Here the pb progress value is set to 20%.

elm_progressbar_value_set(pb, 0.2);

The current value can be read.

double value = elm_progressbar_value_get(pb);

We can set the orientation of the progressbar to vertical instead of the default horizontal orientation.

elm_progressbar_horizontal_set(pb, EINA_FALSE);

This widget emits the following signals, besides the ones sent from Layout:

• “changed” - when the value is changed (since 1.7)
• “focused” - When the progressbar has received focus. (since 1.8)
• “unfocused” - When the progressbar has lost focus. (since 1.8)
• “language,changed” - the program's language changed (since 1.9)

The “changed” signal is the only signal specifically emitted by the progressbar widget.

This is how to register a callback on this signal.

evas_object_smart_callback_add(pb, "changed", changed_cb, data);

// Callback function for the "changed" signal
// This callback is called when the progressbar value changes
static void
changed_cb(void *data, Evas_Object *obj, void *event_info)
{
   printf("The value has changed\n");
}

A Progressbar Example