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NSIS Control progress bar on InstFiles

Is there any way to control the progress bar that is shown on the InstFiles step of the installation?

I have seen tutorials on how to make a progress bar on a custom dialog page, but not how to control the one on InstFiles.

I extract a lot of files and then run a few steps that take a long time, and the progress bar is sitting at around 90% for all of the steps at the end since there were so many files to extract. I would like to have better control of it.

Solution

  • The RealProgress plug-in will give you more control over the progress bar, if you need to move progress during a ExecWait you might be able to do that if you move the progress bar in a second thread.