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<\/a>So the simple way to get a progress bar into your game is this:<\/p>\n
1. Get the source code.<\/p>\n
2. Add ProgressBar.cs to your XNA project. Note that I wrote this in 3.0, so make sure you’re on that version or higher.<\/p>\n
3. Create an instance of a progress bar in your game1 class;<\/p>\n
UI.ProgressBar<\/span> progressBar;<\/span><\/p>\n 4. In your LoadContent() function, set it to a new progressBar, and provide the rectangle you want it to lie in. You can also set the minimum, maximum, and value member variables here. The defaults are 0, 100, and 0, respectively.<\/p>\n progressBar = new<\/span> UI.ProgressBar(this<\/span>, new<\/span> Rectangle<\/span>(10, 10, 300, 16)); 5. In your Update() function, update the value of your progress bar if necessary, and then call the progress bar’s Update() function, providing the gameTime (gameTime is not currently used in the progress bar code, though).<\/p>\n progressBar.value = character.health; 6. In your Draw() function, call progressBar.Draw(), specifying a spriteBatch. Make sure you’re already called SpriteBatch.Begin() before calling the progress bar Draw() function.<\/p>\n progressBar.Draw(spriteBatch);<\/span><\/p>\n And that’s it!<\/p>\n Now, I’ve put quite a few customizable pieces in there. They are all commented in the progress bar code, in the “public members” region.<\/p>\n The one I’d like to talk about is the orientation. You can specify that the progress bar be vertical or horizontal, and in which direction it fill. This is specified at creation time in the ProgressBar constructor. See the orientation member variable for more info.<\/p>\n Here’s a list of the public variables in there now:<\/p>\n float<\/span> minimum – Minimum value of the progress bar. Default is 0.0f. Int32<\/span> borderThicknessOuter – Outer border thickness. This is drawn within the bounds of the progress bar. Default is 3. Color<\/span> borderColorOuter – Outer border color. Default is Gray. Note that you should be careful with the border thickness values. I didn’t add any checking to make sure the border isn’t overcrowding the actual progress bar. You could theoretically have a progress bar that is all border if you set the thicknesses too big.<\/span><\/p>\n Ok, so here’s a <\/span>sample project<\/span><\/a>. Hold space bar if you want to pause.<\/span><\/p>\n
progressBar.minimum = 0;
progressBar.maximum= 10000;<\/span><\/p>\n
progressBar.Update(gameTime);<\/span><\/p>\n
float<\/span> maximum – Maximum value of the progress bar. Default is 100.0f.
float<\/span> value – Current progress value.<\/span><\/p>\n
Int32<\/span> borderThicknessInner – Inner border thickness. This is drawn within the bounds of the progress bar. Default is 2.<\/span><\/p>\n
Color<\/span> borderColorInner – Inner border color. Default is Black
Color<\/span> fillColor – Color of the progress section of the bar. Default is Dark Blue.
Color<\/span> backgroundColor – Color of the background (unfilled) section of the progress bar. Default is White.
Orientation<\/span> orientation – Gets the orientation of this progress bar. Set at creation time.<\/span><\/p>\n