Win32TaskbarProgress

This article applies to Windows only.

See also: Multiplatform Programming Guide

About

This is unit which contains the class to control the progressbar over the Windows 7+ taskbar button. The demo looks like this:

Taskbar button can be colored in several ways:

• none (inactive)
• green progress
• yellow progress (looks like paused state)
• red progress (looks like error state)
• marquee floating animation (progress value is ignored, it's constantly changing animation from min to max)

Author: Alexey Torgashin

License: MIT

Usage

In the form's OnShow (or maybe OnCreate) create the object like this:

uses
  win32taskbarprogress;

procedure TForm1.FormShow(Sender: TObject);
begin
  GlobalTaskbarProgress:= TWin7TaskProgressBar.Create;
end;

And then call properties of this object like this:

  //to change state: none, green, yellow, red, floating
  GlobalTaskbarProgress.Style:= TTaskBarProgressStyle(ComboBoxStyle.ItemIndex);
 
  //to change progress value 0 to 100
  GlobalTaskbarProgress.Progress:= Edit1.Value;

Download

Unit file and demo project: https://github.com/Alexey-T/Win32TaskbarProgress