romko
22nd March 2005 10:44 UTC

Progress status of silent installation
Hello,

We make silent setup for remote install/uninstall. One thing is very important - progress status of current installation process. Is any way to get % progress from setup. How to get ErrorCode I know :)

kichik
22nd March 2005 18:37 UTC

You can manually write the status to some file or the registry. Won't work with more than one installer running, but it's the best idea I can think of right now.

darthvader
16th July 2007 10:36 UTC

I was searching for the exact answer to the question posted the romko. Does anyone know how to get the status of the installation progress?

Afrow UK
16th July 2007 10:48 UTC

As kichik said, you'd have to write it to a registry key or into a text file.

Stu

darthvader
16th July 2007 10:50 UTC

Sorry for asking a dumb question, but How do we get the status(progress) of the installation? Do we need to manually calculate it?

Afrow UK
16th July 2007 11:08 UTC

You can get the current progress bar position by sending PBM_GETPOS to the control with SendMessage.

Stu

darthvader
16th July 2007 11:32 UTC

Thanks for the reply. The variable PBM_GETPOS is not defined in Winmessages.nsh.So i guess i need to use the System plugin.

kichik
16th July 2007 18:58 UTC

No need for the System plug-in. SendMessage and get you the return value.

SendMessage $HANDLE ${PBM_GETPOS} 0 0 $0
# $0 will be the pos