Need Help with Maths with progressbar

Need Help with Maths with progressbar

• Kenn Roland

  thanks yes the one i did buged alot thanks for the reply i replace my code with yours
  

• blaflen

  MiCR0 wrote:

  I been trying to work this out for some time now and I just can not get my head around this everythink i do just does not work. t= total seats a = taken seats int t, a, avg; t = Convert::ToInt32(txtfirstclass->Text); a = Convert::ToInt32(txtavfirstclass->Text); avg = 100 -( (a*100) / t); progressBar1->Value=avg; Say there are 25 taken and 50 total seats progressbar should be at 50%. and if there are 10 seats and 1 is taken then progressbar should be at 10%.

  It looks like you're calculating the percentage of available seats, not the percentage of taken seats. The formula for calculating the taken seats is:

  taken
  ------- * 100 .
  total

  My other suggestion would be to try calculating this in floating point arithmetic:

• Pradeep K

  After testing this myself, I see that floating arithmetic is not necessary. Integer arithmetic will do just fine. ie. the code:
• Need Help with Maths with progressbar