Show installer progress in taskbar (Windows 7)

Archive: Show installer progress in taskbar (Windows 7)

kporter20
13th June 2010 09:29 UTC

Show installer progress in taskbar (Windows 7)
Hi there.

Is it possible to show installer progress via the taskbar icon in Windows 7?

I have just been installing the latest Paint .NET and noticed that this feature was present?

Thanks

Afrow UK
13th June 2010 10:15 UTC

This is done via ITaskbarList3::SetProgressValue. One would need to modify NSIS or call this using the System plug-in.

Stu

MSG
13th June 2010 12:22 UTC

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/TaskbarProgress_plug-in

Afrow UK
13th June 2010 13:38 UTC

Ah sweet! :)

Stu

kporter20
13th June 2010 21:10 UTC

Originally posted by MSG
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/TaskbarProgress_plug-in

Thanks. I will give this a try! :up:

Animaether
13th June 2010 23:05 UTC

I've also created a small header for use outside of InstFiles (or other pages with a progressbar) / in conjunction with Anders' plug-in (to change progressbar states, e.g.).
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Set_Taskbar_button_progress

Note that this does -not- replace Anders' plug-in, as Anders' plugin automatically syncs to a progressbar, which is rather useful within InstFiles, whereas the header obviously does not.

Yathosho
23rd June 2010 20:59 UTC

this plugin does nothing for me, at least not with MUI

Animaether
23rd June 2010 21:12 UTC

Originally posted by Yathosho
this plugin does nothing for me, at least not with MUI

Just to get the obvious out of the way... you -are- running Windows 7, right?

And if you are.. you are -not- using a custom skinning app that might replace/skin the taskbar... right?

Yathosho
23rd June 2010 21:34 UTC

win7 - yes
skin - no
the example works perfectly

Animaether
23rd June 2010 23:55 UTC

Originally posted by Yathosho
the example works perfectly

No idea, then... works fine here with MUI2 as well. From the plugin's example code, I merely changed...


; added
!include "MUI2.nsh"
; changed
Outfile "Win7TaskbarProgress_mui2.exe"
; further original code here
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "English"

Yathosho
24th June 2010 12:02 UTC

you don't have to use MUI_PAGE_COMPONENTS_SHOW (or similiar - i'm on a mac right now) anymore? that's probably why it didn't work, will test it when i get home!

Animaether
24th June 2010 12:17 UTC

You do if you want to mess with the components page - but the example invokes the plugin on initialization of the InstFiles page, so anything regarding to a components page should be moot.

Anders
24th June 2010 13:29 UTC

The plugin will only work when a page has a windows progress bar (The component page has no progress bar, so why are we even talking about it?)

Yathosho
24th June 2010 18:14 UTC

Originally posted by Yathosho
you don't have to use MUI_PAGE_COMPONENTS_SHOW (or similiar - i'm on a mac right now) anymore? that's probably why it didn't work, will test it when i get home!

oops, that was a typo. i'm actually used MUI_PAGE_CUSTOMFUNCTION_PRE

and it works with MUI_PAGE_CUSTOMFUNCTION_SHOW. my bad.