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RobinAtTech
RobinAtTech

Reputation: 1329

Inno Setup wizard is not responding while working with database

I create a database interactive installer by using Inno Setup. I am connecting to a database through wizard window as shown in the picture. When I press Connect, the installer window goes to not responding stage for few seconds (till the connection succeed/ or failed). Is their any way to make the wizard window responsive all the time?

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 288

Answers (2)

Slappy
Slappy

Reputation: 5472

Do not perform long tasks in main GUI thread.

Create separate thread which performs long (or time consuming) tasks and communicates with GUI.

This is a little complicated but it is de facto standard in Windows programming.

Really nice example is downloading large files: there is special plug-in (http://www.sherlocksoftware.org/page.php?id=50) which does that in separate thread so GUI is not blocked.

Simply do the same - but do not download file but process your database actions.

Upvotes: 1

Martin Prikryl
Martin Prikryl

Reputation: 202282

Not in Inno Setup itself.

You would have to implement the connection in a separate DLL that would connect in a separate thread.

Upvotes: 1

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