tommy916
23rd April 2004 18:12 UTC

dialer, how to make it work?
  It doesn't seem working for me. I've disable the internet, it messagebox say "it is connected". Am i missing something? how do i include dialer.dll in the code?

OutFile "dial.exe"

>Section 

Call ConnectInternet

SectionEnd


>Function ConnectInternet

   Push $R0

     ClearErrors

     Dialer::AttemptConnect

     IfErrors noie3

     

     Pop $R0

     StrCmp $R0"online" connected

       MessageBox MB_OK|MB_ICONSTOP "Cannot connect to the internet."

      Quit ;This will quit the installer. You might want to add your own error handling.

     

    noie3:

     ; IE3 not installed

     MessageBox MB_OK|MB_ICONINFORMATION "Please connect to the internet now."

     

    connected:

    MessageBox MB_OK "it is connected"

   

   Pop $R0

   

 FunctionEnd 

>

Joost Verburg
23rd April 2004 19:41 UTC

Do you have only one single dial-up connection that is disconnected from the Internet?

tommy916
23rd April 2004 20:03 UTC

I was on internet network.
I've disabled the network connection.
I've tried one single connection disconnected
and i've delete all the dialup connections.

still don't work. I am not sure if i'm missing a code. I'm using exactly same code as i posted above. how do you include the dialer.dll in the code if it is required?

Thank you
:)

Joost Verburg
23rd April 2004 20:09 UTC

It only works for dial-up connections.

fredtheman
24th April 2004 00:16 UTC

The ConnectInternet() function most likely relies on WININET.DLL that is part of IE. One of the API's of this DLL is InternetGetStateConnected()... which, as you've seen, is _not_ a reliable way to check if the user really is online.

I came to the conclusion that the only truly reliable way is to read the DNS IP from the Registry, and connect out to it.

Fred.

Brummelchen
24th April 2004 02:17 UTC

which windows ?

in most cases u need a region number in the modem options of your system to get the dialer windows

Start > settings > controls > modem

on winxp you need also the "automatic RAS connection service" as started automatically

to check if you're really online you have to download a little file...

tommy916
24th April 2004 07:38 UTC

I was using two XP computers. I guess I'll have to skip this since it is not set by default for RAS service enabled.