SprintfBox Example

InstallShield 2016 » InstallScript Language Reference

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Note • To call this function in a Basic MSI setup, you must first create a custom action for the entry-point function, execute the custom action in a sequence or as the result of a dialog's control event, and then build the release.

/*--------------------------------------------------------------*\

*

* InstallShield Example Script

*

* Demonstrates the SprintfBox function.

*

* This script gets the capacity of drive C: and then calls

* SprintfBox to create and display a formatted message.  That

* message includes the drive letter and disk size, which are

* stored in variables.

*

\*--------------------------------------------------------------*/

// Include Ifx.h for built-in InstallScript function prototypes.

#include "Ifx.h"

export prototype ExFn_SprintfBox(HWND);

function ExFn_SprintfBox(hMSI)

    STRING  svResult;

    NUMBER  nvResult;

begin

    // Set up the string parameter for the call to GetSystemInfo.

    svResult = "C:";

    // Get the capacity of drive C.

    GetSystemInfo (DISK_TOTALSPACE, nvResult, svResult);

    // Build and display a message that incorporates

    // the values returned by GetSystemInfo.

    SprintfBox (INFORMATION, "System Information",

               "Total disk space on drive %s is %ld bytes.",

               svResult, nvResult);

end;

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