Daniel wrote:Hello,
In order to avoid this limitation, as a workaround, you can proceed like this:
- Go to Dialogs page and select the "ProgressDlg" dialog from "First Time Install" tree node.
- Select the progress bar control and edit its subscribed event like this:
- Subscribe To: Display overall installation progress (enhanced UI only)
Attribute to set: Progress
- Build and run your project.
All the best,
Daniel
Hi Daniel,
I'm having the same issue, I tried setting that option and it does change the behaviour of the progress bar but it still doesn't work very well. With the surface theme it keeps jumping to halfway and back instead of just the first few pixels, in your classic theme it basically just goes straight to full and stays there for the install.
Without the option set the Windows taskbar displays the progress pretty much correctly (i.e. exactly what we'd like the installation progress bar to do), however with that option set the taskbar also goes straight to full so overall I'd say it just makes things worse...
This is all replicated easily by creating simple new packages with just a few large files to install (so that you need a progress bar) and changing just the theme and/or that setting.
I know it's ultimately a Windows fail but it's really quite annoying tbh as it makes a lengthy install look very unprofessional, especially when most installers for major products don't have this problem. Presumably some competing products (which I'd rather not use as I love yours aside from this!) have overcome it somehow, if the Windows taskbar can do it then it must be possible...
Also I notice you seem to have removed the option in 11.x, rather than improve it, as I can only find it in 10.9.1? This thread is over 2 years old now so it would be great if you could address it.
Thanks
