Progress Bars for Installs via kTools and WPI

[lawrenca]

Answers for MSI installers found here:

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?s=&sho...ndpost&p=467708

I think kenedy resolved the bugs with MSI and could easily be handled by a slight change to generate.js...original was written for backward compatibility with the RunOnceEx method of installs.

If we are not interested in that, we can open up all the commands and functionality of kTools.

[phatkat98]

i finally got all this to work. but i have one question i setup a test run and had calc.exe, cmd.exe, and dxdiag.exe execute. just as a test run. every thing worked great except that cmd opened minimized and so did dxdiag. i would like to know if this is normal behaviour ( calc opened normal ). when i run my original wpi (without ktools) every thing opens normally. what would cause that?

edit - i checked out the ktools thread- i configured my max\min\hide in my config.ifi file. but that still did not fix the windows minimizing. please help

Edited February 26, 2006 by phatkat98

[Lost Soul]

i finally got all this to work. but i have one question i setup a test run and had calc.exe, cmd.exe, and dxdiag.exe execute. just as a test run. every thing worked great except that cmd opened minimized and so did dxdiag. i would like to know if this is normal behaviour ( calc opened normal ). when i run my original wpi (without ktools) every thing opens normally. what would cause that?

edit - i checked out the ktools thread- i configured my max\min\hide in my config.ifi file. but that still did not fix the windows minimizing. please help

i believe its set to function this way in order to have wpi minimized during installs

[phatkat98]

i finally got all this to work. but i have one question i setup a test run and had calc.exe, cmd.exe, and dxdiag.exe execute. just as a test run. every thing worked great except that cmd opened minimized and so did dxdiag. i would like to know if this is normal behaviour ( calc opened normal ). when i run my original wpi (without ktools) every thing opens normally. what would cause that?

edit - i checked out the ktools thread- i configured my max\min\hide in my config.ifi file. but that still did not fix the windows minimizing. please help

i believe its set to function this way in order to have wpi minimized during installs

i messed with the source code most of last night i hope this is okay.

the original codelooks like this

Dim $Flag									  ;default flag for installation
   If IniRead (@ScriptDir & "\config\config.ini", "config", "WindowMode" , "Minimize") = "Minimize" Then $Flag = @SW_MINIMIZE
   If IniRead (@ScriptDir & "\config\config.ini", "config", "WindowMode" , "Minimize") = "Maximize" Then $Flag = @SW_MAXIMIZE
   If IniRead (@ScriptDir & "\config\config.ini", "config", "WindowMode" , "Minimize") = "Hide"	 Then $Flag = @SW_HIDE

i changed it to this

Dim $Flag									  ;default flag for installation
   If IniRead (@ScriptDir & "\config\config.ini", "config", "WindowMode" , "Restore") = "Minimize" Then $Flag = @SW_MINIMIZE
   If IniRead (@ScriptDir & "\config\config.ini", "config", "WindowMode" , "Restore") = "Maximize" Then $Flag = @SW_MAXIMIZE
   If IniRead (@ScriptDir & "\config\config.ini", "config", "WindowMode" , "Restore") = "Hide"	 Then $Flag = @SW_HIDE
   If IniRead (@ScriptDir & "\config\config.ini", "config", "WindowMode" , "Restore") = "Restore"  Then $Flag = @SW_RESTORE

now it still does not conform to the config file but now i see my applications.

i tried if statements and select statements none worked.

i added the compiled .exe for anyone who wants restored windows.

kTool.zip

Edited February 26, 2006 by phatkat98

[Solid as a rock]

If i am not wrong, this is WPI with progressbar?

I want to ask you all, do you have notice the order of applications (for example number 999) dont work and it is in alphabetical order instead of the numbers in THIS version? In 4.3.5 it works fine, in 4.3.8 and 1.1 it dont, so i want to know this version too?

[Flintstone]

There is an option that says something like 'Show applications in order'. If you select this then the applications will be in the order specified by the numbers (Like 999).

[imthemp3king]

Will this work if you give just some of the apps numbers? I have about 3 things I would like to run at the very end and those are the only ones that I care about the order other than dependencies.