Message Dialog

[DarrellBlack]

Is there a LUA command to popup (display) a dialog message like the Dialog.TimedMessage that will allow the installer to keep running while it is displaying? I would like the Timed message to work like file.run with an option to wait for return or not. Is this possiable today? I do not use screens as everything is done completely in the actions area.

[Worm]

StatusDlg is probably what you're looking for. You can hide it, and show it at will.

[Adam]

Worm is right, the StatusDialog action should fit your needs properly.

Adam Kapilik

[DarrellBlack]

I tried the simple
StatusDlg.ShowProgressMeter(true);
before starting to zip a large file (about 30 seconds in time)
after I place the StatusDlg.Hide(); I was hoping for a process bar to popup and start to move or not move. I did not see this. I also read over the docs but do not understand it. Can you give a me a line or two that works? I can run with it from there.

First how does it know the size so it knows how to show 0 - 100%?

I would be happy with a popup timer, bar graph that goes back and forth or just change cursor so the user knows it is still running.

[HMMurdock]

After poking around with it I used the following:

function fcnZipCallback(String,Percent)
if(bCancelled)then
-- Abort the download...
return false;
end

if Percent == 100 then Count1 = Count1 + 1; end
TotalComplete = ((Count2 + Percent) / file_num);
Count2 = Count1 * 100;

DlgProgressBar.SetPos(CTRL_PROGRESS_BAR_01,TotalCo mplete);
DlgProgressBar.SetPos(CTRL_PROGRESS_BAR_02,Percent );

return true;
end

That function was used on the "On Start" action of a progress bar screen. This allowed me to have 2 progress bars, Individual file progress and Total Progress (not entirely accurate unless all files being zipped are the same size, but it still gives the desired effect)

The code I called the function with looks like this...


FileTable = { insert file list here }
file_num = Table.Count(FileTable);
Zip.Add( insert zip filename here ), FileTable, false, "", 5, fcnZipCallback, true);

I hope this helps. (I realize there is probably a better way to incriment the counters to do the total complete, but this did eventually work for me.

[HMMurdock]

I forgot to mention... all of the counter variables (count1, count2 and TotalComplete) were initialized at 0