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infd#

How to make work progress bar on custom page?

I uses MUI2. Before any installation i have 2 custom pages, first with options and second with progress. I not able to make work correctly progress page. I tried many ways and in all of this ways my custom page freezes when operations in progress.
Now code looks like this:


...

Page custom PROGRESS PROGRESS_LEAVE

...

Function PROGRESS

        ...

        nsDialogs::Create 1018

        #hide buttons

	GetDlgItem $0 $HWNDPARENT 1

	ShowWindow $0 ${SW_HIDE}

	GetDlgItem $0 $HWNDPARENT 2

	ShowWindow $0 ${SW_HIDE}

	GetDlgItem $0 $HWNDPARENT 3

	ShowWindow $0 ${SW_HIDE}

        ...

	${NSD_CreateProgressBar} 0u 20u 100% 10u ""

	...

	${NSD_CreateTimer} OnTimer 1000

        nsDialogs::Show

Function OnTimer

	Var /Global clicked

	StrCmp $clicked "true" progbar

	StrCpy $clicked "true"

	GetDlgItem $0 $HWNDPARENT 1

	SendMessage $0 ${BM_CLICK} 0 0

	progbar:	

        #animation related code here

        ...

FunctionEnd

Function PROGRESS_LEAVE  #a huge timed operations there

...

FunctionEnd
Page not displays any buttons and clicks for "next" automatically by timer for post function PROGRESS_LEAVE execution. Where i must put my code for file operations for page not freezes and actually show progress? I not able to use sections there since it is pre-installation tasks.
JasonFriday13#
Originally Posted by infd View Post
I not able to use sections there since it is pre-installation tasks.
Sure you can. You get all the options required in custom pages, then you create a hidden section that runs all the pre-install tasks.

Example:
Name "test"

OutFile "test.exe"

RequestExecutionLevel user

ShowInstDetails show

; custom pages somewhere here

Page components

Page instfiles

Section -preinstall_tasks

  DetailPrint "Preinstall Tasks"

SectionEnd

Section install

  DetailPrint "Install"

SectionEnd
infd#
Sure you can.
Firstly, code was not intended to have pre install tasks and have a huge size. One of preinstall option will exit installer after showing progress. After preinstall pages i have many pages and sections all of this must be modified for check preinstall options and skip them if i want use sections for preinstall tasks, but in possible. If i show custom progress or not show anything then remaining code works without any modification. Currently i forced to not show anything about 1 min since my progress page not works (
Kuppy#


Page custom PROGRESS PROGRESS_LEAVE



Function PROGRESS



        nsDialogs::Create 1018



	GetDlgItem $0 $HWNDPARENT 1



	ShowWindow $0 ${SW_HIDE}



	GetDlgItem $0 $HWNDPARENT 2



	ShowWindow $0 ${SW_HIDE}



	GetDlgItem $0 $HWNDPARENT 3



	ShowWindow $0 ${SW_HIDE}



	${NSD_CreateProgressBar} 0u 20u 100% 10u ""

	Pop $ProgressBar



	${NSD_CreateLabel} 0u 10u 40% 10u "0%"

	Pop $Percent



       	GetFunctionAddress $0 "OnTimer"

  	nsDialogs::CreateTimer $0 100



        nsDialogs::Show



FunctionEnd



Function OnTimer



	Var /Global clicked



	StrCmp $clicked "true" progbar



	StrCpy $clicked "true"



	GetDlgItem $0 $HWNDPARENT 1



	SendMessage $0 ${BM_CLICK} 0 0



	progbar:	



	loop: 

	   IntCmp $R1 $R0 done 0 done

	   IntOp $R1 $R1 + 1

	   SendMessage $ProgressBar ${PBM_SETPOS} "$R1" 0

	   ${NSD_SetText} $Percent "$R1%"

.

	   Sleep 100

	   StrCmp $R1 "100" 0 loop

	done:

       	   GetFunctionAddress $0 "OnTimer"

  	   nsDialogs::KillTimer $0



	Call NextPage

FunctionEnd



Function PROGRESS_LEAVE  #a huge timed operations there



FunctionEnd
infd#edited
Kuppy, seems like you only write code for bar animation? I make animation code by myself but problem is other - if long processed code resides in function PROGRESS_LEAVE then installer window is hangs and not redrawing while this code is executing.
Today i try to put this long procesing code in timer function and window still freezing.
I also try to put code in background thread inside timer function with BgWorker plug-in but it changes nothing.

My question is simple. nsDialogs plugin designed for creation of custom pages. This plugin is able to create progress bars. How to correctly show custom page with progress bar? My background tasks makes main window freezing ( Main window redraws only when 100% of long timed code is processed (

Maybe it "File" instruction issue?
Anders#
Operations that take a long time should only be performed on the InstFiles page.

The BgWorker plug-in can be used to work around the problem on a custom page but it is not pretty: Create a timer. When the timer fires, kill the timer and start the background thread. The background thread has to update the progressbar in addition to doing its actual work.
infd#
Anders, thanks a lot. I will try your method as last resort. Long processing code is pretty simple - mostly "File" for copying and "StrCpy" instructions for change single variable with processing status.