User interaction with the ProgressBar

There are three modes in which to use the ProgressBar component. The most commonly used modes are the event mode and the polled mode. These modes specify a loading process that either emits progress and complete events (event and polled mode), or exposes bytesLoaded and bytesTotal properties (polled mode). You can also use the ProgressBar component in manual mode by setting the maximum, minimum, and value properties along with calls to the ProgressBar.setProgress() method. You can set the indeterminate property to indicate whether the ProgressBar has a striped fill and a source of unknown size (true) or a solid fill and a source of known size (false).

You set the ProgressBar's mode by setting its mode property, either through the mode parameter in the Property inspector or the Component inspector, or by using ActionScript.

If you use the ProgressBar to show processing status, like parsing 100,000 items, if it is in a single frame loop there will be no visible updates to the ProgressBar because there are no redraws of the screen.