Re: [WiX-users] How to move progress bar during custom action

2009-03-18 Thread Don Benson
In order to show progress, you have to know two things: total work to be done and current amount of work completed. MsiProcessMessage is used to notify Windows Installer how much work has been completed. Who knows how much work has been done? If it is the EXE that you cannot modify, then I don't kn

Re: [WiX-users] How to move progress bar during custom action

2009-03-17 Thread Michael
Hi Richard, Thanks for your suggestion. How do I use it? I can't modify EXE. Where I have to write MsiProcessMessage? Regards, -SMR Richard wrote: > In article <5a8c7ab90903170713j46a90ffeiae458e6fa1b1a...@mail.gmail.com>, > Don Benson writes: > > >> The Windows Installer documentatio

Re: [WiX-users] How to move progress bar during custom action

2009-03-17 Thread Richard
In article <5a8c7ab90903170713j46a90ffeiae458e6fa1b1a...@mail.gmail.com>, Don Benson writes: > The Windows Installer documentation seems to indicate that the progress bar > does not work after InstallFinalize. Check out the following, link, > especially step 9. > > http://msdn.microsoft.co

Re: [WiX-users] How to move progress bar during custom action

2009-03-17 Thread Don Benson
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Michael wrote: > I have a custom action after 'InstallFinalize' which runs an EXE. EXE > will execute for long time. During that period, progress bar is not > moving. Progress is being empty. Give me some suggestions about how to > show progress bar during custo