Pause installation process and wait for user

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hobbes487
3rd December 2010 04:08 UTC

Pause installation process and wait for user
I am embedding a mySql install in my NSIS installer and I am doing it with the following:

ExecWait '"msiexec" /i "$INSTDIR\mysql-essential-5.1.50-win32.msi"'

The problem is when it is finished installing it closes and opens a separate exe used to configure the mysql instance. When this happens the NSIS installer resumes it's installation. I need it to wait until after the user is done configuring mySql and closes that exe. Anyone have any ideas how I can accomplish this? Is there a way to pause the install and wait until the user clicks a 'resume' button?

MSG
3rd December 2010 06:05 UTC

Originally posted by hobbes487
Is there a way to pause the install and wait until the user clicks a 'resume' button?

Try MessageBox. :-)

You can also try to check for the existence of the SQL configuration file, like:
loop:
sleep 1000
IfFileExists "YourConfigFile" break
goto loop
break:

Or wait until you find the configuration process finishes (search the forums).

jiake
3rd December 2010 11:40 UTC

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/ExecWait...th_Job_Objects

MSG
3rd December 2010 13:26 UTC

Thank you, I'll remember that one.