Re: setting status from postflight
Re: setting status from postflight
- Subject: Re: setting status from postflight
- From: "Adam Fisk" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:28:58 -0800
I'll definitely give it a look guys -- thanks very much.
-Adam
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Bryan S. Lee <email@hidden> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> 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.
>>
>> http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/ihook/
>>
>> -Mike
>>
>>
>> On 1/6/09 12:59 PM, "Bill Coderre" <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Sorry, we don't have support for that in Installer.app.
>>
>> If you really want, you could create a GUI application to show
>> progress. Yes, that's a lot of work.
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