Billboard = ?

[Alexander]

Hi,

I was just wondering: what is the billboard host control for?

[Pepa]

Check this topic:
http://www.advancedinstaller.com/forums ... php?t=1396

If the billboard is supposed to do what I asked for in that topic, then I can not quite figure how to do it...

Could we have some small doc or howto on setting this up? The documentation is not very usefull at this point...

Thanks

[gigi]

Hi,

First please take a look at the "Adding a Billboard Host control" section in this link:
http://www.advancedinstaller.com/user-guide/editor.html

The Billboard control is used to display text information, images, etc on the progress dialog while the package is installed. The Billboard Host is the host for all billboards (a billboard can contain controls like: text, images,...) that you want to be displayed while the package is installed.

Add a "Billboard Host" on the dialog and choose "Edit Billboards..." from the context menu. The "Billboards" dialog will appear. In this dialog you can subscribe a billboard to an action from the "InstallExecuteSequances" of actions (this billboard will appear when this action is reached).

After you add the billboards on the "Billboard Host" you will see a list of all added billboards on the "Billboard Host" properties list.

To add controls on a the "Billboard Host" select the current billboard from the list and drop controls (text, bitmap, icons, groupbox, line) on it. Do this for all billboards from the properties list.

Also we have a tutorial in the online documentation, please take a look here:
http://www.advancedinstaller.com/user-g ... ditor.html

If you encounter any problem please let me know.

Regards,
Gigi
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Advanced Installer Team
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[Pepa]

Thank you for your help - I must have missed the document in user guides...

One more question, this doesn't seem to be covered: If I have multiple billboards on the same dialog (usually progress dialog), can I switch between them at some pre-set intervals, or perhaps link the billboard updates to the progress bar percentages?

Thank you.

[gigi]

Hi,

If I have multiple billboards on the same dialog (usually progress dialog), can I switch between them at some pre-set intervals, or perhaps link the billboard updates to the progress bar percentages?

Actually you can do this with a custom action, please take a look at this link:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/defau ... essbar.asp

By default if you subscribe all billboard to the same action windows installer automatically divide the total execution time of the action and give equal time for each billboard.

Regards,
Gigi
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Gheorghe Rada
Advanced Installer Team
http://www.advancedinstaller.com

[Pepa]

Very good, thank you.