xFX
11-24-2001, 12:28 AM
I have created an installer that downloads another installer (both created using SF6) and executes it.
The function "wait for program to finish running before continuing" can't be used here because of the way installers works: the downloaded file simply decompressed and another exe is executed, so the installer that issued the "execute" command thinks that the other installer has finished.
So, I created a small monitoring script that checks the status of a registry key... when this key is set to something like "done" it continues. Of course, is the downloaded installer that sets that key notifying that it has finished.
The problem is that while the main installer checks the registry a message is shown saying "Reading Registry"...
It would be nice to be able to change the status text generated by functions such as the "read from registry", "HTTP download", etc...
Notice that when you download a file a new dialog is created and there's no way to change any of the messages in that dialog.
Perhaps, if we could change the "window title", the "heading", etc... it would allow us to provide some extra-information to the user about what is the installer really doing.
[This message has been edited by xFX (edited 11-24-2001).]
The function "wait for program to finish running before continuing" can't be used here because of the way installers works: the downloaded file simply decompressed and another exe is executed, so the installer that issued the "execute" command thinks that the other installer has finished.
So, I created a small monitoring script that checks the status of a registry key... when this key is set to something like "done" it continues. Of course, is the downloaded installer that sets that key notifying that it has finished.
The problem is that while the main installer checks the registry a message is shown saying "Reading Registry"...
It would be nice to be able to change the status text generated by functions such as the "read from registry", "HTTP download", etc...
Notice that when you download a file a new dialog is created and there's no way to change any of the messages in that dialog.
Perhaps, if we could change the "window title", the "heading", etc... it would allow us to provide some extra-information to the user about what is the installer really doing.
[This message has been edited by xFX (edited 11-24-2001).]