flash play during installation

I search trough the forum but unfortunately I did not manage to find a solution on this. I am trying to use nsWeb to insert a flash movie and inetc to download a file. What I am not able to do is to merge the two of them in the install page, because nsWeb is using custom page to display the flash and inetc is using the install page. Is there a way to have an installation page displaying the download progress bar inside of it and also to play the flash inside the same page?

Doesn't inetc have an option to download in a pop-up window?

Yes, inetc has banner option.
Still I am not able to run them (nsweb and inetc) simultaneously ... maybe is so easy but I could not figure it out ...

Not flash.. but http://nsis.sourceforge.net/AnimGif_plug-in can do the trick with animated gif.

yes. AnimGif does the trick but what if I want to use flash movie. It should be a combination between AnimGif and nsWeb (use the way that AnimGif use the install window to display and make this work on nsWeb. But I'm too stupid to make that.
I think there are few people that will use and enjoy this flash movie play at installation time if someone can fix nsWeb to use not only custom pages to display iself but also the instpage ....

Originally posted by aditu.g
if someone can fix nsWeb to use not only custom pages to display iself but also the instpage ....

There's a popup method in my plugin, see the examples.
BTW: You forgot the write the magic word... "please" 😉

You may try this (not tested though), create a 2nd 'installer' which include only the custom page the nsWeb and the flash movie and extract it in $PLUGINSDIR, execute it just before launch inetc in banner mode and close it once inetc has finished.

Originally posted by Joel
There's a popup method in my plugin, see the examples.
BTW: You forgot the write the magic word... "please" 😉

Please, please, please. Could you be so kind

Originally posted by aditu.g
Please, please, please. Could you be so kind

Do you actually read the plugin examples? 😠

My need is to display the html page (having flash inside) during installation. I can use the popup way but the window will show over installation window and only when is closed will continue the installation process.
I was thinking if there is a way to insert with resource hacker a control in the installation page (106 I think) and make nsweb use this one instead of 1018 from 105. I mean to place a control for the html in the usual place of the show details.
In this way html is inside the installation page...
But like I said I too dumb to figure out a way to do this. Please 🙄 help me

No ideas? If I try to launch the flash and nsweb in popup, the flash is waiting to be close and after that the download is started ... I have made 2 exe: one is displaying the flash in popup, the other is download the files. Is there a way to close the flash popup when download was ended?

I have made 2 exe: one is displaying the flash in popup, the other is download the files.

Does this actually work as expected?
I haven't yet the time to compile and test this suggestion, would be nice if you post a minimal example about 🙂

Is there a way to close the flash popup when download was ended?

You could use Takhir's function when download is finished,

Yes, it is working. In the same ugly way I can just taskill the showHTML.exe process instead of kill the window. I still hope that there is another nice way to use together both plugins. here is the example

Code should reside in section. Below script works as expected,

#Find and Close or Terminate

!define APP_NAME find_close_terminate

!define WND_CLASS "Internet Explorer_TridentDlgFrame"

!define WND_TITLE ""

!define TO_MS 2000

!define SYNC_TERM 0x00100001

!include WinMessages.nsh



LangString termMsg ${LANG_ENGLISH} "Installer cannot stop running ${WND_TITLE}.\

$\nDo you want to terminate process?"

LangString stopMsg ${LANG_ENGLISH} "Stopping ${WND_TITLE} Application"



!macro TerminateApp

    Push $0 ; window handle

    Push $1

    Push $2 ; process handle

    DetailPrint "$(stopMsg)"

    FindWindow $0 '${WND_CLASS}' ''

    IntCmp $0 0 done

    System::Call 'user32.dll::GetWindowThreadProcessId(i r0, *i .r1) i .r2'

    System::Call 'kernel32.dll::OpenProcess(i ${SYNC_TERM}, i 0, i r1) i .r2'

    SendMessage $0 ${WM_CLOSE} 0 0 /TIMEOUT=${TO_MS}

    System::Call 'kernel32.dll::WaitForSingleObject(i r2, i ${TO_MS}) i .r1'

    IntCmp $1 0 close

    MessageBox MB_YESNOCANCEL|MB_ICONEXCLAMATION "$(termMsg)" /SD IDYES \

    IDYES terminate IDNO close

    System::Call 'kernel32.dll::CloseHandle(i r2) i .r1'

    Quit

  terminate:

    System::Call 'kernel32.dll::TerminateProcess(i r2, i 0) i .r1'

  close:

    System::Call 'kernel32.dll::CloseHandle(i r2) i .r1'

  done:

    Pop $2

    Pop $1

    Pop $0

!macroend



!include "MUI.nsh"

!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "English"

AutoCloseWindow false

OutFile `download.exe`



function .onInit

   InitPluginsDir

   File /oname=$PLUGINSDIR\showHTML.exe "showHTML.exe"

functionend



Section "Dummy Section" SecDummy

   HideWindow



   exec "$PLUGINSDIR\showHTML.exe"

   sleep 1000



   inetc::get /caption "Getting main installation" /banner \

   "Please wait ... $\nWinRar is downloading necesary files" \

   "http://www.rarlab.com/rar/wrar37b5.exe" "$PLUGINSDIR\winrar.exe"



   Pop $R1

   MessageBox MB_OK "Plugin return code: $R1"



   !insertmacro TerminateApp



   exec "$PLUGINSDIR\winrar.exe"



   BringToFront

SectionEnd

Is there a way to put the banner inetc plugin download on the bottom of the popup window of the nsweb html page? I need to integrate somehow the 2 plugins (inetc and nsweb) and display the html flash content and the download progress bar in the bottom of that window. Any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks

Since nsweb html page, its boundries is all the dialog window, you'll have to change the source code, to reduce the size.

I used Inetc plugin source code and modify resources in the IDDialog2 (used for the banner method). I inserted there a shockwave flash object. Everything looks ok (I test the dialog in MsVC++ with ctrl+T and it is displaying the flash). After I compiled the dll and call the plugin from the installer nothing happen. Please can someone can take a look and tell me what is wrong ...

Looks like common Win32 methods in the DialogBox() call cannot create shockwave flash object in the dialog, this is why plug-in returns "Dialog Error", to see this please

Pop $0

MessageBox MB_OK $0

after plug-in call (present in all samples 🙂 ). You can search internet for samples, this is what I found right now http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/FlashGui.asp

Attached is a flash player sample for Win32 dialog. Finally you need few lines of code in OnInitDialog function only. I am not sure how good this will be on all platforms, but dialog worked fine during 10 minutes I played with it on XP. You can modify Inetc in the same manner. Please note that player require a full path to swf file (may be set in the command line in this sample).