How can I add text to a progress bar?

[dubs]

I want to be able to add text to a progress bar that updates with status as the bar is progressing.  I can’t seem to find any property nodes for this.  Any ideas on a clean/easy way to do this?

[Harold_Timmis]

use a string indecator to display what state you are in

[dubs]

I had considered this but I don’t like the look and feel of doing it this way.  Perhaps a better question would be is there a way to make the container/border of a sting indicator transparent (like a label) so I can overlay the status text in the progress bar?

Message Edited by dubs on 11-30-2009 03:35 PM

[Dennis_Knutson]

You can make the string indicator transparent with the paint tool (View>Tools Palette).

What kind of text do you want to display?

[J-M · Accepted solution]

Like this?

Jean-Marc

[Harold_Timmis]

Yes, you can customize your control with the tools palette and go to set color and change it to the T for transparent

[dubs]

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J-M wrote:

Like this?

Jean-Marc

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Perfect!  Thank you much.

[Dennis_Knutson]

That's a pretty tedious way to display that. You don't have to select text display in order to show 'Progress: x%". The normal digital display will do this with a format statement of 'Progress: %d%%'. 

[dubs]

True, but I want to display status text, not just % complete. 

[RDR]

You can also use a .NET container and .NET control; I used to have an example of this somewhere...