I have a simple billboard made up of 4 bmps. Everything looks ok in the
Billboard & BBControl tables and Billboard control. However, during
execution, only the first 2 billboards show. I was under the impression
that each would be given equal time on-screen. Default for action is
InstallFiles, which should take the longest to complete, so there should be
ample time for the billboards.

Thanks for the response. Your suggestion has enabled me to see 3 out of the
4, but even if I pad the billboard with 4-6 copies of Billboard4, it never
shows. The ProgressTicks calc may be off beacuse of the merge modules or
reg entries, but the banners stop rotating when the progress bar gets to
about 50%. Files have finished by this time, but reg keys take up the
remaining 50% and the banners don't move during this time. Weird.

Thanks again for your help.


"mgama" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I too have seen this. I think it started to appear right after I added a
> large number of fonts to the install. It is possible that Windows
Installer
> was incorrectly calculating the time/progress-bar-ticks needed to install
> the fonts, which resulted in the file-copy process taking the first 50% of
> the progress bar (taking several minutes), and the font install taking the
> last 50% (which took two seconds). This resulted in some billboards never
> being shown. If I removed all the fonts, the billboards and progress bar
> worked as normal. My hacky solution was to make a couple copies of the
last
> billboard to sort of push the 4 important billboards into the first 50% of
> the progress bar.
>
> For other people trying to figure out how to create/implement billboards,
I
> put together a small script that would add all the necessary info to the
MSI
> for the billboards to work. It can be found here:
> http://www.vzavenue.net/~mgama/index.html
>
>
>
> "Latch" <latch_@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I have a simple billboard made up of 4 bmps. Everything looks ok in the
> > Billboard & BBControl tables and Billboard control. However, during
> > execution, only the first 2 billboards show. I was under the impression
> > that each would be given equal time on-screen. Default for action is
> > InstallFiles, which should take the longest to complete, so there should
> be
> > ample time for the billboards.
> >
> >
>
>

Sounds like you are in the same boat as I was... the file copy process takes
the first 50% of the progress while some other actions (fonts, regkeys,
etc.) take the last 50%, which probably takes just a few seconds.

One other hacky solution you could try is associating one of the BillBoard4
copies with a different action, such as the WriteRegistryValues action. I
wish I knew more on what the progress bar timing is so off.


"Latch" <latch_@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Thanks for the response. Your suggestion has enabled me to see 3 out of
the
> 4, but even if I pad the billboard with 4-6 copies of Billboard4, it never
> shows. The ProgressTicks calc may be off beacuse of the merge modules or
> reg entries, but the banners stop rotating when the progress bar gets to
> about 50%. Files have finished by this time, but reg keys take up the
> remaining 50% and the banners don't move during this time. Weird.
>
> Thanks again for your help.
>
>
> "mgama" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I too have seen this. I think it started to appear right after I added
a
> > large number of fonts to the install. It is possible that Windows
> Installer
> > was incorrectly calculating the time/progress-bar-ticks needed to
install
> > the fonts, which resulted in the file-copy process taking the first 50%
of
> > the progress bar (taking several minutes), and the font install taking
the
> > last 50% (which took two seconds). This resulted in some billboards
never
> > being shown. If I removed all the fonts, the billboards and progress
bar
> > worked as normal. My hacky solution was to make a couple copies of the
> last
> > billboard to sort of push the 4 important billboards into the first 50%
of
> > the progress bar.
> >
> > For other people trying to figure out how to create/implement
billboards,
> I
> > put together a small script that would add all the necessary info to the
> MSI
> > for the billboards to work. It can be found here:
> > http://www.vzavenue.net/~mgama/index.html
> >
> >
> >
> > "Latch" <latch_@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > > I have a simple billboard made up of 4 bmps. Everything looks ok in
the
> > > Billboard & BBControl tables and Billboard control. However, during
> > > execution, only the first 2 billboards show. I was under the
impression
> > > that each would be given equal time on-screen. Default for action is
> > > InstallFiles, which should take the longest to complete, so there
should
> > be
> > > ample time for the billboards.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>