This article was updated by Michael Martin (allowing the progress bar can now be placed in any pane of the status bar).

Adding a CProgressCtrl to the status bar has already been addressed by Brad Mann. His method involved modifying the status bar and messing around with the resource editor. I developed a separate CProgressBar class in order to allow the programmer to just drop in a progress bar whereever they wanted using a single "CProgressBar Bar(...)" declaration, which would initialise and display itself and clean up after itself after it was done. The progress bar can also be created once (say as a member variable) and reused multiple times. This new version of the progress bar also resizes itself if the status bar size changes.