online installer

5 posts

empezarApril 1, 2006 at 11:28 AM#

online installer

i'm making an online installer, with "distfiles" (each section has a zipped package that is downloaded and extracted).

is it possible to let the installer check these distfiles' sizes and display them in the installer (e.g. space required: 65mb)?

Afrow UKApril 1, 2006 at 11:38 AM#

You'll need to have a text file on the server containing this information. It could be an INI file for example, which you download silently with InetLoad and then read with ReadINIStr.

-Stu

Red WineApril 1, 2006 at 11:52 AM#

This thread makes me think for a possible use of ButtonEvent plugin. Place an xml file on the download location holding all prefered info, download it and retrieve with one of xml plugins ( 3 in wiki) and have a button to display that info.
Should be cool, don't you think?

TakhirApril 1, 2006 at 12:02 PM#

This is probably about AddSize runtime.. I am not sure this is possible 🙁

kichikApril 1, 2006 at 12:05 PM#

Sure it is. Use SectionGetSize and SectionSetSize.