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Billboard display time

Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 8:11 am
by Jupiter
Billboards are html-files which are displayed on screen while coping the files. My problem is that the time of my installation is extremely short and my billboard only appears for half a second. Please help me insert a delay so to make the display time not less than say 5 seconds. Thank you.

Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 9:04 am
by CandiceJones
You set the display time yourself in the HTML code!

Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 9:30 am
by Jupiter
You set the display time yourself in the HTML code!
How is that? Would you give details? What tags do I use?
Thank you.

Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 10:09 am
by CandiceJones
Regular HTML tags including the refresh tag set to whatever interval you like and whichever next HTML page you would like to go to for the next billboard.

Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 10:33 am
by Jupiter
This tag does not extend the display time and is only usefull when the installing time is long enough which is not my case. What I need is to artificially exteeeeeeeeeeend the file coping time so as to enable the user to read the billboard. I saw such feature in CreateInstall2000 - that's why I'm asking. It seems like InstallAware does not support this feature.

Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 10:49 am
by ulrichard
Hi Jupiter,

you could call the dll function Sleep in kernel32.dll.

Rgds
Richard

Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 3:23 am
by Jupiter
ulrichard wrote:you could call the dll function Sleep in kernel32.dll.
It worked out! Thank you, Richard.
Only the progress bar suspends while Sleep is pending