Creating Progress Bar Using JProgressBar Class

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Creating Progress Bar Using JProgressBar

Class

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In this tutorial, we will show you how to use JProgressBar class to

create progress bars in your Java swing application.
A progress bar is a widget that displays progress of
a lengthy task, for instance file download or transfer. To create a
progress bar in swing you use the JProgressbar class. With
JProgressBar you can either create vertical or horizontal progress

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COMPONENTS

bar. In addition JProgressBar class allows you to create another

kind of progress bar which is known as indeterminate progress

JButton
JToggleButton
JCheckBox
JRadioButton

bar. The indeterminate progress bar is used to display progress

with unknown progress or the progress cannot express by
percentage.
Here are the constructors of JProgressBar class:

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JLabel
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JTextArea

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Constructors

Meaning

public JProgressBar()

Creates a horizontal progress bar.

public

Creates a progress bar using BoundedRangeMode

JEditorPane

JProgressBar(BoundedRangeModel hold data.

JSpinner

model)

JComboBox

public JProgressBar(int orient)

Creates a progress bar with a given orientation dete

bySwingConstants.VERTICAL or SwingConstants.H

JList

public JProgressBar(int min, int

JPasswordFie
ld

Creates a progress bar with mininum and maximum

max)

JScrollBar

public JProgressBar(int orient, int

Creates a progress bar with mininum and maximum

min, int max)

progress bars orientation.

JProgressBar
JSlider

Example of using JProgressbar

In this example, we will use JProgressBar class to create a

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simple progress bar.

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package jprogressbardemo;
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class Main {
public static void main(String
String[] args) {
final int MAX = 100;
final JFrame frame = new JFrame("JProgress Demo")

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// creates progress bar

final JProgressBar pb = new JProgressBar();

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pb.setMinimum(0);
pb.setMaximum(MAX);
pb.setStringPainted(true
true);

// add progress bar

frame.setLayout(new
new FlowLayout());
frame.getContentPane().add(pb);
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE
frame.setSize(300, 200);
frame.setVisible(true
true);

// update progressbar
for (int
int i = 0; i <= MAX; i++) {
final int currentValue = i;
try {
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new
new Runnable()
public void run() {
pb.setValue(currentValue);
}
});
java.lang.Thread.sleep(100);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(frame, e.getMessage
}
}
}

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