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A Health Bar In VB.Net
So your making a game and you need a code for a health bar?
Well your in luck today because we got the tutorial for you!

Add 2 buttons and 1 textbox to the form.
Name button 1 Heal
Name button 2 Attack

Now time for some coding!

Declare these when your inside the coding....

Public BMap As New Bitmap(Me.Width, Me.Height, Me.CreateGraphics)
Public GraphicsBuffer As System.Drawing.Graphics = System.Drawing.Graphics.FromImage(BMap)
Public HpBarG As Integer = 100
Public HpBarR As Integer = 100

Form 1 Load code

drawhpbar()

Then make this code below the form load code

Private Sub Form1_Paint(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs) Handles Me.Paint
e.Graphics.DrawImage(BMap, 0, 0)
End Sub

Next add this

Private Sub drawhpbar()
If HpBarG < 0 Then
HpBarG = 0
End If
If HpBarG > 100 Then
HpBarG = 100
End If
GraphicsBuffer.DrawRectangle(Pens.Black, New Rectangle(47 - 1, 5 - 1, 100 + 1, 15))
GraphicsBuffer.FillRectangle(Brushes.Red, New Rectangle(47, 5, HpBarR, 14))
GraphicsBuffer.FillRectangle(Brushes.Lime, New Rectangle(47, 5, HpBarG, 14))
Me.Invalidate(New Rectangle(47 - 1, 5 - 1, 100 + 1, 15))
End Sub

For button 1 code add this

HpBarG += textbox1.Text
drawhpbar()

then for button 2 code add this

HpBarG -= textbox1.Text
drawhpbar()

Thank you for using my 3rd of all my tutorials!

Good tut im gonna try it now but next time make to use the code thingo coz people will have a cry , like me

PLEASE use the CODE tags: [/code]
You tutorials is good, but use the CODE tags!! Please, im begging!

also how can we use two of these say for an Energy Bar

Looks nice, I've been trying to code a text based rpg for a while now, but the healthbar I made wasn't good at all...

wait i got lost in the code could you explain it to me i know what this means but what does this "do"

Looks Awesome! ty for the tut. Have Fun Coding!

Ehh... no. That's a very big no-no. If the user enters anything but a number, you're program will not work the way you want it to. Do this instead: Also, why did you make this cost 5 credits? It's not that hard of a "program" and you have the source listed there.