Dialog Countdown Timer - exits after 5 min if no action

[saleen98r]

Hi, our company purchased 4 Studio licenses and our team (all new to IA) is currently trying to create a dialog that will exit after a preset time (example: 5 minutes) if an end user does not click on the RUN/Install button. Reason is because we want these dialogs to exit or self-terminate if there are no users around to click the RUN button. This was possible using a custom billboard in our previous Wise Scripting Editor which we been using for last 8-10 years.

Management team insists we inform users when particular program installs (like IE8, Java 1.6, etc...) are done. If the user is not there, the dialog must close itself and be presented a few hours later. We've been using this deployment method for years with SMS/SCCM and Wise Scripter custom dialog using a Kernel32.dll call to sleep or countdown from 5 minutes, then terminate/exit if no one is around. Of course, on some installs, we force or silently push the app without user intervention.

Can you provide any assistance or tips please?

Btw, I've looked into "Object Rules and "Object Behavior" and using $Progress$ but could not get something to work properly.

[giaviv]

Dear saleen98r,

Could you elaborate on this part: "but could not get something to work properly"?
Lets try and figure that out together.

[saleen98r]

Hi, I've attached a sample code. As you can see from screen capture, our custom dialog states if a user does not select an action, it will cancel automatically.

I could get the countdown timer to work but I can not click on any buttons or they dont respond. Only when the countdown reaches 0 does it select a predetermined button. What we need is to have this dialog accept a user input (Run or Cancel) at anytime during the countdown. I know origin of the problem is the dialog is using "Non Modal" , I believe that means no buttons can be selected. Thinking that if I change it to "Modal", it will work. However, that breaks the countdown timer all together.

If you need any more details, please let me know.

[giaviv]

Dear saleen98r,

Please be aware that with InstallAware, no separate user interfaces are ever shown for third party installers (this is thanks to (Un)Install MSI Setup, which makes such requirements virtually obsolete with InstallAware). Hence, it will not be easy / intuitive to achieve what you are trying to do with InstallAware.