[SOLVED] Labels for Installation Progress

[phoffman]

Does anyone know if it's possible to bold a label or display a second bold label to indicate the stage of the installation?

Here's a good example of what I'm talking about.

[FrancescoT]

Dear User,

you could define several Dialog Behavior rules (using Dialog Editor) to activate those labels conditionally based on a script variable value.

I may suggest you to have a look at the following topics available with IA documentation;

- Using the Dialog Editor
- Dialog Behavior
- Passing Values from the Script to Dialog
- Intra-Dialog Relations

Hope this helps you.

Regards.

[phoffman]

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Ok, I think that's what I settled on. I created three labels: lblComponent01 (for regular text), lblComponent01_Bold (when in progress), and lblComponent01_Grey (when waiting to install). Each of these labels are invisible by default and their caption value is set to $COMPONENT01_TEXT$. I also created another label named lblComponent01_State. This label is also invisible and its caption is set to $COMPONENT01_STATE$.

Now when I update the COMPONENT01_STATE variable to say WAIT lblComponent01_Grey is made visible (INPROGRESS - lblComponent01_Bold, COMPLETE - lblComponent01). Almost there!

But I think I'll hit a snag. See I'd like to display the features that the user selected as a label on this dialog. It sounds like a simple problem but if I call Get Component State it's going to mess up my installation because this command is used for calculating disk space and such. Any hints on how to deal with this?

[FrancescoT]

Dear User,

Honestly, I'm not quite sure to fully understand what you are reporting.

"InstallAware requires this command be used at least once in your installation to be able to accurately predict target disk space requirements."

This doesn't mean that the command can't be called more then once.

Regards

[phoffman]

Assume that I have the following command in my MSICode and that it's feature-independent.

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    Install Files C:\Product\disc 1\target\*.* to $TARGETDIR$, include subfolders

Now, when I add a call to Get Component State prior to my Install Files command my folder is no longer feature-independent. It's a folder of FeatureA. This can be verified by looking at Files in the Design view. Check the Filter Files by Feature checkbox and leave it on Feature independent. Select the folder and you see nothing. Switch to FeatureA and the folder appears on the right.

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  Get Component FeatureA Selection State into Variable SELECTED
  Install Files C:\Product\disc 1\target\*.* to $TARGETDIR$, include subfolders

Bad bad bad. I should be able to call a Get* command without having to worry about what it's going to do to my installation. How can I workaround this problem?

[FrancescoT]

Dear User,

I believe there are some misunderstanding.

By you previous email, I understood that you was tryng to obtain the state of a selected component, in order to refresh conseguently your user interface.
Probably I missed your question ... honestly I'm lost.

Regards

[phoffman]

Okay, let's try a different angle. Is Get Component State the only way to retrieve the state of a component?

[FrancescoT]

yes, it is!

Regards

[phoffman]

Ok, is there a way to avoid having an InstallFiles command from being associated with a component after I call Get Component State? For example, I would like to install the files in the target folder regardless of whether I've selected the FeatureA component or not.

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Get Component FeatureA Selection State into Variable SELECTED
Install Files C:\Product\disc 1\target\*.* to $TARGETDIR$, include subfolders

[FrancescoT]

Dear User,

If you use features with your project, you should handle all your installed files using features.

It is true that you can have an Installed file as Feature Independet, but the command must be forcedly placed in your script, before any call to "Get Component" command.

I suggest you to add an extra feature to your project, where you handle the installation of all those files that must be installed regardless of the select features.
For example, you could create a "Core" feature selected by default and even setting, if the feature has to be visible or not in end-user setup wizard dialogs for component selection.

Obviously if you use this approach, after any call to "Get Component Selection", you should use the following way to verify if a fature have to be installed or not.

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Get Component Core Selection State into Variable SELECTED
if Variable SELECTED Equals FALSE
   Install Files xxxxxxx.exe to $TARGETDIR$
end

Hope this helps you.

Regards

[phoffman]

That might be a viable solution. I just looked at the help for Define Component and I don't see a way to prevent the component from being unchecked. Is there a way?

[FrancescoT]

Dear User,

as I said previously, you can;

- Set it as not visible with "Set Component Visibility"
- Set it unselectable with "Set Component Choice"

Regards

[phoffman]

I should do a better job at reading before replying. Thanks.

[FrancescoT]