"David" <websales@orbitcoms.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I am wanting to write a demo simulation program to show how our water tank
> controllers work. I have tried using a progress bar, changing the
> height of a panel and making bitmaps visible and invisible but cannot find
> a suitable method of animating a water tank filling and draining.
> Also want to show some round LEDs turning on and off but the SHAPE
> component is not included with this version of VB.
>
> Anyone know where I might be able to obtain a component for a round LED
> and something that could emulate a tank level filling and draining ?
>
> I have looked at commercial programs such as National Labview and Dundas
> gauges but these are far too expensive for the small amount of programming
> that I need to do for an application that we will be giving away.
> Hopefully there may be a shareware version of gauges and indicators ?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help
> --
>
>
>
> Kind Regards
>
> David
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"David" <websales@orbitcoms.com> wrote in message
news:3eGug.6432$tE5.6199@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> Hi,
>
> I am wanting to write a demo simulation program to show how our water tank
> controllers work. I have tried using a progress bar, changing the
> height of a panel and making bitmaps visible and invisible but cannot find
> a suitable method of animating a water tank filling and draining.
> Also want to show some round LEDs turning on and off but the SHAPE
> component is not included with this version of VB.
>
> Anyone know where I might be able to obtain a component for a round LED
> and something that could emulate a tank level filling and draining ?
>
> I have looked at commercial programs such as National Labview and Dundas
> gauges but these are far too expensive for the small amount of programming
> that I need to do for an application that we will be giving away.
> Hopefully there may be a shareware version of gauges and indicators ?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help