I know how to create a custom dialog, and show it.
But what I was hoping to do, was show a dialog with a message (Doing something, please wait...) on it, disable any buttons, and call a method that will take a while to return. Then when the method has returned, enable the buttons and/or move to the next step etc
How would I go about this? Or is there a better way to do this?
Basically I have a bunch of stuff that will take a short while to do, and want to show the user that I am doing x, y, z.
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Show a dialog while doing a lengthy process
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pauldavidson
, Dec 05 2012 15:55
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Taco Bell
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Posted 05 December 2012 - 16:58
A better way to do such status updates is to use the built-in SdShowMsg() functionality, so here's some example code:
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| SdShowMsg("Doing something, please wait ...", TRUE); // TURN ON INSTALL'S STATUS MESSAGE // DO SOME WORK SdShowMsg("", FALSE); // TURN OFF INSTALL'S STATUS MESSAGE |
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Posted 05 December 2012 - 17:16
Brilliant, that is a lot easier than what I was attempting to do. If any windows are showing at the same time, can a user click the cancel/back/next?
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Posted 06 December 2012 - 15:47
I know that click handling still works for non-InstallShield dialogs and I think that would be true of any IS dialogs too.
Edited by Taco Bell, 06 December 2012 - 16:03.
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Posted 06 December 2012 - 17:24
Before SdShowMsg you may want to call
Disable(DIALOGCACHE);
Disable(DIALOGCACHE);
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Posted 11 December 2012 - 17:40
| QUOTE (Stefan Krueger @ 2012-12-06 17:24) |
| Before SdShowMsg you may want to call Disable(DIALOGCACHE); |
What does this do Stefan?
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Posted 12 December 2012 - 18:36
I've never had to call it, but according to the InstallShield documentation, Disable(DIALOGCACHE) does the following:
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| Disables the dialog cache mechanism which normally eliminates the screen flash that appears between the display of dialogs. This screen flash is most noticeable in the title bar of setups running in window mode. Note that the dialog caching mechanism works only for dialogs that have BACK and NEXT buttons. |
Edited by Taco Bell, 12 December 2012 - 18:36.
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Posted 14 December 2012 - 16:22
It will remove the previous dialog from the screen, so that the SdShowMsg is not displayed on top of it.
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