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hi,

I am new at scripting in HTA. I've created this hta to give user an interface and show the progress of an application during its installation from start to finish. We typically deploy application silently, lately our management wants to show the installation in a single interface. My script is to deploy the applicaion with this hta front end to display the progress while monitor a specified process is running "setup.exe" and show each step of the way.

The progress bar is working, however, it does not know when to stop. I tried both clearinterval and cleartimeout window.clearInterval(iTimerID2) window.clearTimeout(iTimerID2)

It is not working. Any help or suggestion is appreciated.

What I would like the script to do is to stop the progress bar when the maxprogress is reach or when the setup.exe is finished.

here is the code:

<html>
<head>
<HTA:APPLICATION ID="porgbar"
APPLICATIONNAME="MyApp Installation"
BORDER="thin"
BORDERSTYLE="normal"
CAPTION="yes"
MAXIMIZEBUTTON="no"
MINIMIZEBUTTON="no"
SHOWINTASKBAR="yes"
SINGLEINSTANCE="yes"
SYSMENU="yes"
VERSION="1.0"
/>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
#barreprog {
position:absolute;
left: 50%;
right: 25%;
width:700px;
margin-left: -350px;
height: 1em;
bottom: 15%;
padding:2px;
background-color:white;
border:1px solid black;
}
#indicator{
width:0px;
height: 1em;
background-color:C06A45;
}
//-->
<title>MyApp Installation</title>
BODY {font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14pt; color: black }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h2 style="text-align:center;">MyApp installation process has started</h2>
<hr style="width:75%; color: navy;"/>
<DIV ALIGN=CENTER>

<p><font size="5">Please save your work and close all applications before clicking <b>“Install Now.”</b></font></p>

<p><font size="5"><i>This process should take approximately 40 minutes to complete. Please do not attempt to launch any applications during this time.</i></font></p>
</DIV>

<div id="DynamicText" style="text-align: center; color:red; font-weight: bold; font-size:25px">
<p> </p>
</div>

<div id="InstallButton" style="visibility: hidden;">
<p style="text-align: center;"><input type="button" id="InstallNow" value="Install Now"></p>
</div>

<script language="VBScript">
' Count Down Code
' Declare global variable outside of the Subs
Option Explicit
Dim strComputer, strProcess
Dim iRefreshRt, maxprogress, actualprogress
Dim text1, text2, text3, text4
Dim intMinutes, intSeconds
Dim iTimerID
Dim iTimerID1
Dim iTimerID2
iRefreshRt = 15000
maxprogress = 500
actualprogress = 0
strComputer = "."
strProcess = "setup.exe"
text1 = "Now processing you request..."
text2 = "Now remove previous version..."
text3 = "Now removing and installing..."
text4 = "Installation complete..."
intMinutes = 1
intSeconds = 01

Sub Window_onLoad
window.ResizeTo 900, 450
window.MoveTo ((Screen.Width / 2) - (900 / 2)),((Screen.Height / 2) - (450 / 2))
' Set the minutes and seconds
iTimerID1 = window.setInterval("Countdown", 1000, "VBScript")
DynamicText.innerHTML = intMinutes & "min:" & Right("00" & intSeconds, 2) & "s"
InstallButton.Style.Visibility = "visible"
document.body.bgColor="E9F1EA"
End Sub

Sub Countdown
DynamicText.innerHTML = intMinutes & "min:" & Right("00" & intSeconds, 2) & "s"
If intSeconds = 0 Then
' Install auotmatically after time expires
If intMinutes = 0 Then
InstallNow.Click
Else
intMinutes = intMinutes - 1
intSeconds = 59
DynamicText.innerHTML = intMinutes & "min:" & Right("00" & intSeconds, 2) & "s"
End If
Else
intSeconds = intSeconds - 1
DynamicText.innerHTML = intMinutes & "min:" & Right("00" & intSeconds, 2) & "s"
End If

End Sub

' On Click the install button
Sub InstallNow_onClick()
dim oShell, objFSo
set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
oShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\MyApp\Time", "now" , "REG_SZ"
oShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\MyApp\Date", cstr(date) , "REG_SZ"
Set oShell = nothing
set objFSo = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
If objFSo.fileExists("C:\MsgFlag.txt") then
objFSo.DeleteFile("C:\MsgFlag.txt")
End If
Set objFSo = nothing
If InstallNow.Value = "Install Now" Then
Window.clearTimeout(iTimerID1)
InstallNow.disabled = True
Document.getElementById("DynamicText").innerHTML = text1
' DynamicText.innerHTML = "Now processing you request..."
InstallNow.Value = "In Progress"
Call ProcessStatus
iTimerID = window.setInterval("UpdateStatus", iRefreshRt) 'Set timer ONCE
document.body.bgColor="C9DECB"
End If
End Sub

Sub UpdateStatus
Dim ProcessStat
ProcessStat = ProcessStatus
End Sub

Function ProcessStatus
Dim objWMIService, colProcesses, objProcess, objProgram
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
& "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colProcesses = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
("Select * from Win32_Process Where Name = '" & strProcess & "'")
If colProcesses.Count > 0 Then
ProcessStatus = "Running"
document.body.bgColor="B4D1B6"
Do Until colProcesses.Count = 0
' MsgBox strProcess & " is running."
Document.getElementById("DynamicText").innerHTML = text3
' DynamicText.innerHTML = "Now removing and installing..."
Call StartProg
Exit Do
Loop
Else
window.clearInterval(iTimerID2)
InstallNow.Value = "In Progress"
document.body.bgColor="C9DECB"
' Document.getElementById("DynamicText").innerHTML = text4
End IF
End Function

Function iTimer (TimeCheck)
iTimer = 60000 * TimeCheck 'Ensure numeric
End Function

sub StartProg()
iTimerID2 = setInterval("prog", 10000, "vbscript")
end sub

sub prog()
Dim objWMIService, objFSO, objShell, colFileList
dim indic
Set indic = document.getElementById("indicator")
actualprogress = actualprogress + 1
indic.style.width = actualprogress
if actualprogress > maxprogress then
window.clearInterval(iTimerID2)
Document.getElementById("DynamicText").innerHTML = text4
document.body.bgColor="6CA870"
End if
End sub

</script>
<div id="barreprog">
<div id="indicator"> </div>
</div>
</head>
<div id="Progress"> </div>
</body>
</html>

Edited by Tripredacus
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With my deployment app, I simply show an HTA during the install process to alert users that the installer is running. That way you don't have to worry about calculating times, etc. Also you need to watch out for installers that spawn msiexec.exe, since that can stay open in the background for 10 minutes.

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Thank you for the quick reply. We do have something in that nature, however, they want something with a button to click on and inform every step of the way and also a count down clock to give them time to save any works before we force close the dependence applications in a single GUI. I can't think of any better than HTA, this will have message, button, progress bar and using the innerHTML to show the steps take place.

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I am looking at my HTA (see signature) which does not have a working progress bar... BUT it does go away after its work is done. I'm no master of VBScript, but I notice a difference between it and yours. Your progress routine doesn't have any exit command. For example:

Sub objWIM_Progress(Percent,TimeRemaining)
On Error Resume Next
objShell.Popup Percent, 1, "Title", -1
If Percent = 100 Then
progress.innerHTML = "<table border='0'><tr><td>Percents completed: </td><td>100 % </tr><tr><td>Time remaining: </td><td>0 min 0 sec</td></tr></table>"
Exit Sub
Else
Call ProgressHelper(Percent,TimeRemaining)
End If

See that Exit Sub part in there. :unsure:

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I've tried with the Exit Sub. That don't work. Also tried with a sub funtion to stop the timer. All with the same result, the progress bar would not stop at the end of timer or at max count.

sub StopTimer

window.clearInterval(iTimerID2)

end sub

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Thanks Tripredacus. I got it working now, just switch the order of progrress.

sub prog()

Dim objWMIService, objFSO, objShell, colFileList

dim indic

Set indic = document.getElementById("indicator")

if actualprogress > maxprogress then

window.clearInterval(iTimerID2)

exit sub

else

actualprogress = actualprogress + 1

indic.style.width = actualprogress

Document.getElementById("DynamicText").innerHTML = text4

document.body.bgColor="6CA870"

End if

End sub

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  • 8 months later...

Hey wmlau,

I was looking for an application like yours for a quite some time. this is a very helpful and usefull application.

One thing I cannot understand, what in the script I need change to let the script know that I am installing oovoo, basically, how the script knows about ooVooSetup.msi?

Thanks,

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That's a totally different thing than tracking Imagex. For installing an MSI file you need to look at msiexec.exe but you'll notice that process stays active for up to 10 minutes after completing the installation of the MSI file.

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