Controls

Progress Telerik UI for WinForms

WaitingBar

Sleek Loading

The Telerik Windows Forms WaitingBar control is designed to let the user know that a long-running operation is underway. Unlike RadProgressBar, the Telerik Windows Forms WaitingBar control does not display an indication of completed percentage. Instead, it continuously animates a block across a progress area as long as the operation continues.
Styles
The control supports 10 predefined styles out of the box. Each style has a variety of customization options, such as the waiting animation, animation step, speed, colors and so on. The styles include:
- Indeterminate style, which is similar to the indeterminate mode of the standard Microsoft ProgressBar control. In this style RadWaitingBar smoothly animates all indicators longwise.
- Throbber mode, which moves only one of the control’s indicators in two directions, left and right when the RadWaitingBar is horizontal, and bottom and top when the control is vertical.
- Dash style, where RadWaitingBar moves smoothly in a striped pattern instead of indicators.
- DotsLine is a line of moving dots.
- DotsSpinner is a ring or moving dots.
- LineRing is a ring composed of lines.
- SegmentedRing is a ring composed of segments.
- DotsRing is a ring composed of dots.
- FadingRing is a fading rotating ring.
- RotatingRings are two rotating rings.
Highly Customizable

RadWaitingBar enables you to customize its orientation, waiting direction, waiting speed and text position, as well as the indicator’s number, appearance and behavior.
Associate with Control

RadWaitingBar can be associated with any control. Once the waiting bar is associated with a control, and its StartWaiting method is called, the associated control will be covered with a semi-transparent window. In the middle of the window, the waiting bar control will appear and start indicating a waiting process.
Extensive VS.NET Design-Time Support
- Convenient design-time gallery for selection and customization of the waiting style
- The ability to apply themes in design time and easily switch between them; the ThemeName property in the Smart tag automatically detects the present themes
- Visual Style Builder, Element Hierarchy Editor and Shape Editor productivity tools for full control over the UI
- Options to search the forums or open online documentation in the Smart Tag
Appearance

The control is shipped with a rich set of themes that allow you to easily build slick interfaces with the look-and-feel of some of the latest Windows and Office versions. The themes can be easily switched using a single property.

Our framework also features support for custom themes, which can be built from scratch to fit your exact visual demands by using the Visual Style Builder productivity tool.