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## Monitoring the progress of drawing a complicated Graphic

TProgressEvent is a generic progress notification event which may be used by TGraphic classes with computationally intensive (slow) operations, such as loading, storing, or transforming image data.

Event params:

Stage

Indicates whether this call to the OnProgress event is to prepare for, process, or clean up after a graphic operation. If OnProgress is called at all, the first call for a graphic operation will be with Stage = psStarting, to allow the OnProgress event handler to allocate whatever resources it needs to process subsequent progress notifications. After Stage = psStarting, you are guaranteed that OnProgress will be called again with Stage = psEnding to allow you to free those resources, even if the graphic operation is aborted by an exception. Zero or more calls to OnProgress with Stage = psRunning may occur between the psStarting and psEnding calls.

PercentDone | The ratio of work done to work remaining, on a scale of 0 to 100. Values may repeat or even regress (get smaller) in successive calls. PercentDone is usually only a guess, and the guess may be dramatically altered as new information is discovered in decoding the image. The value of this property could usefully be passed to a ProgressBar to show the user how drawing is progressing

RedrawNow

Indicates whether the graphic can be/should be redrawn immediately. Useful for showing successive approximations of an image as data is available instead of waiting for all the data to arrive before drawing anything. Since there is no message loop activity during graphic operations, you should call Update to force a control to be redrawn immediately in the OnProgress event handler. Redrawing a graphic when RedrawNow = False could corrupt the image and/or cause exceptions.

Rect | Area of image that has changed and needs to be redrawn.
Msg | Optional text describing in one or two words what the graphic class is currently working on. Ex: "Loading" "Storing" "Reducing colors". The Msg string can also be empty. Msg strings should be resourced for translation, should not contain trailing periods, and should be used only for display purposes. (Do not use the construct: if Msg = 'Loading' then...)

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