Re: setting status from postflight
Re: setting status from postflight
- Subject: Re: setting status from postflight
- From: "Bryan S. Lee" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:57:10 -0500
- Thread-topic: setting status from postflight
Title: Re: setting status from postflight
I also use iHook to give user feedback on two different, large installers. One hides lots of GUI scripted stuff from the user’s eyes (applescript GUI events can still click/type behind the window) while providing feedback and progress bar.
The other completely takes over and provides lots of feeback. In the installer.app, all I would get was 20+ minutes of “installing postscripts, 3 minutes left”. Afraid too many user’s were killing it thinking it was hung up.
Have it start as a separate process in the script and have multiple hooks that tie into the main installation to get a vibe on what’s happening, where it is in the process and such. Also can use it to provide error reports and logs also. Custom background. Very easy to use.
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Bryan S. Lee
From: Adam Fisk <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 15:16:17 -0500
To: "Perbix, Michael" <email@hidden>
Cc: <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: setting status from postflight
Thanks Mike and Bill. The win isn't big enough *right now* to justify
spending a ton of time on it, but I'll definitely take a look at iHook
when the time comes.
Thanks very much.
-Adam
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Perbix, Michael <email@hidden> wrote:
> If you include iHook with your package, you can push a script through it and use iHook to display your gui messages with progress bar etc. That is how I do my first loginhook after imaging to let the user know what is going on. Ihook is not big, and free to use.
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> http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/ihook/
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> -Mike
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> On 1/6/09 12:59 PM, "Bill Coderre" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> On Jan 6, 2009, at 9:46 AM, Adam Fisk wrote:
>> Does anyone know if there's a way to set the status message from a
>> postflight script? My script takes a little while for various
>> reasons, so I'd like to assure the user things are still humming
>> along.
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> Sorry, we don't have support for that in Installer.app.
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> If you really want, you could create a GUI application to show
> progress. Yes, that's a lot of work.
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