On Thu, 28 May 2009 11:04 -0600, "Richard" <[email protected]> wrote: > > In article <[email protected]>, > "Curtis Jewell" <[email protected]> writes: > > > I know MsiProcessMessage is what I want to do to check for that cancel > > button... (I'd make the call each time I recurse into AddDirectory) but > > what's opaque is what parameters do I use if checking for a Cancel > > button press is the only thing I want to do? > > There are two ways you can approach this. You can just periodically > write something to the log file with MsiProcessMessage with > INSTALLMESSAGE_INFO and check the return value.
And I have points where I want to log things, so checking there is a matter of adding a case to the select afterwards that translates the return value into an ERROR_ constant. Easy enough. > However, since your action takes quite a while, if you don't have some > sort of updated UI your user is going to think the UI is "hung" and > might do something stupid, like kill the process in the middle or > generate a support call. > > So, the method I would suggest is to indicate progress of your CA by > publishing AcionData messages with INSTALLMESSAGE_ACTIONDATA instead. I do say it'll take a few minutes at the beginning with a <ProgressText>, but I agree, adding ACTIONDATA calls would give more feedback and allow me to check frequently. So what I understand I need to do is: 1) I call MsiProcessMessage at the beginning of my CA with INSTALLMESSAGE_ACTIONSTART with a handle that contains three things: [1] = "CA_ClearFolder" [2] = "Searching for additional files to delete:" [3] = "Directory: [1]" and then for each directory I enter into, I'd call MsiProcessMessage(INSTALLMESSAGE_ACTIONDATA) with a handle with these contents: [1] = directory I've entered into. Is that the correct way to do it? (specifically, the correct way to tell the ACTIONSTART that the ACTIONDATA should be formatted that way?) --Curtis -- Curtis Jewell [email protected] %DCL-E-MEM-BAD, bad memory -VMS-F-PDGERS, pudding between the ears [I use PC-Alpine, which deliberately does not display colors and pictures in HTML mail] -- Curtis Jewell [email protected] %DCL-E-MEM-BAD, bad memory -VMS-F-PDGERS, pudding between the ears [I use PC-Alpine, which deliberately does not display colors and pictures in HTML mail] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & iPhoneDevCamp as they present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://p.sf.net/sfu/creativitycat-com _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
