Hi, i have a label and a progress bar in a statuStrip in my RSS Reader application. I want that a message like "Update in progress" is displayed in the label during the update of the RSS feeds. So, before i start the update, i simply set:

statusLabel.Text="Update in progres..."

and, when the update is complete, i do:

statusLabel.Text="Done".

The problem is the message don't appear! I've tried to change the label text in other parts of the application, and it works. I've tried also to change the message "Done" with something else, and it displays it. But there is nothing to do, when i press the refresh button of my application, the label text still remains "Done".
What can i do? The progress bar near the label works perfectly too!
The crazy thing is that, if I add a watcher to statusLabel.Text during the debug, it says the its value is "Update in progress...", but on the screen i can only read "Done".

Ehm, i've tried to do as you said, but there is no method called "Refresh" for the label object... The problem is that it's a toolStripStatusLabel, so there isn't a Refresh method...

Thanks very much for the help, it works perfectly now!

Had the same problem, but that solved it. Thanks a lot!

I have this same problem and calling Refresh on the status strip doesn't help. Has anyone seen this?

Is there any other way to handle this?

Thanks.

My code looks like this:

ToolStripStatusLabel1.Text = "Translating " & iFileCount & " of " & i_sFiles.Length & "."

StatusStrip1.Refresh()

Didn't work for me either. First time I set the text of the label control it comes through okay, but the second and subsequent times the text of the label appears to be blank. The progress bar on the same strip updates fine in response to the refresh or invalidate/update calls.

my code looks like this:

Code Snippet

this.btCreateCatalog_Click( sender, e );

HighPerformanceTimer overallTimer = new HighPerformanceTimer(),

scriptTimer = new HighPerformanceTimer();

if( this.catalog != null )

{

// get the set of upgrade scripts and run them one at a time

string[] upgradeScripts = Directory.GetFiles( this.catalog.CatalogDirectory, "Cube*.xml" );

string lastScript = null, message = null;

this.progressBar.Maximum = upgradeScripts.Length;

for( int i = 0; i < upgradeScripts.Length; i++ )

{

string script = File.ReadAllText( upgradeScripts[i] );

this.scriptEditBox.CodeText = script;

scriptTimer.Stop();

if( lastScript != null )

{

message = "Loaded '" + lastScript + "' in " + Convert.ToInt32( scriptTimer.ElapsedSeconds() ).ToString() + " seconds. ";

}

lastScript = upgradeScripts[i];

message += "Now loading '" + lastScript + "'.";

this.lbCurrentUpgradeScriptName.Text = message;

this.statusStrip.Refresh();

scriptTimer.Start();

this.UpgradeCatalog();

this.progressBar.Increment( 1 );

this.statusStrip.Refresh();

}

}