This page allows you to display a progress monitor that indicates your end users about the state of the extraction. Paquet Builder comes with four default progress monitor themes. You need to select one according to your needs.
Progress Dialog Style
You can select the style for the progress dialog box. Paquet Builder features four themes for the progress bar:
- Windows file copy dialog like: it looks like the ones you can find in Windows Explorer when you copy, delete, move files... An animation with "flying files" and a progress gauge are displayed.
- Traditional progress dialog: it displays a small animation (32x32 sized if you except to change it) and a larger progress bar.
- Progress dialog without an animation: same as the preceding one but without an animation. Like the standard Setup program "Please wait..." message boxes.
- Wizard style progress dialog: only available if the interface theme is set to wizard of course, this dialog is actually a wizard step displaying a gauge but similar to the other wizard steps. Recommended if you create a wizard-style package (and moreover packages are smaller when this option is used!).
Windows file copy dialog like
Status Text
Enter the text you would like to show on the progress monitor. It should indicate what it is happening.
Paquet Builder provides you with two variables specially designed for the file extraction process:
- %EXTNAME% contains the filename of the unpacked file.
- %EXTPERCENT% indicates the percentage of the extracted files. It does not contain the % symbol.
For instance you can type: "Extracting %EXTNAME%" that will become "Extracting GSplit.chm" (see screen shot above) where GSplit.chm is the file currently being unpacked.
| Important: if you choose the 7-Zip compression method, use %EXTPERCENT% rather than %EXTNAME%. In a 7-Zip extraction process, %EXTNAME% is only updated at the end of the extraction (7-Zip first extracts files temporarily and then only replaces files). |
Or "Setting up My Application on your computer... %EXTPERCENT%% done." It will become "Setting up My Application on your computer... 15% done.".
Animation Filename
If you would like to change the default animation for the progress monitor, you have to specify a new filename. Packages support standard Video for Windows files (.AVI extension). Leaving the field blank will cause Paquet Builder to use the default animation clip.
Please note that you can only use silent AVI clips. AVI files containing audio will not work correctly. Moreover be sure to use a default compression codec (you may also leave the AVI uncompressed because Paquet Builder will compress the AVI file when compiling the package): don't use special codecs such as DivX® or XVid.
Note that this option is only used for progress monitor themes which feature an animation of course.
Do not show the progress monitor dialog
If you enable this option, the progress indicator will be hidden and the file extraction will be performed silently ("in the background").
The progress bar is also hidden when the silent mode is enabled.