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Billboards

The following is a hack for testing but it does work, we hope to improve this but its good enough for an example (given how hard they are to find)!

Thanks again to Julian Onions for the code (which I've made minor tweaks to).

;--- Define BillBoards to be displayed --------------------------------------
<$Table "Billboard">
    ;--- Works --------------------------------------------------------------
    ;<$Row Billboard="Billboard1" Feature_="<$Feature?>" Action="InstallFiles" Ordering="1">
    ;<$Row Billboard="Billboard2" Feature_="<$Feature?>" Action="InstallFiles" Ordering="2">

    ;--- Doesn't ------------------------------------------------------------
    <$Row Billboard="Billboard1" Feature_="<$Feature?>">
    <$Row Billboard="Billboard2" Feature_="<$Feature?>">
<$/Table>


;--- Define 2 the controls for the BillBoards -------------------------------
<$Table "BBControl">
    ;--- BillBoard #1 (a bitmap on its own - can be any collection of controls) ---
    <$Binary "Aust_DB.bmp" Key="BBBitmap">      ;;I'm using this because its "handy"
    #(
        <$Row
            Billboard_="Billboard1"
            BBControl="BBControl1"
            Type="Bitmap"
            X=0 Y=0
            Width=50 Height=50
            Attributes=3
            Text="BBBitmap"
        >
    #)


    ;--- BillBoard #2 (two lines of text) -----------------------------------
    #(
        <$Row
            Billboard_="Billboard2"
            BBControl="Text"
            Type="Text"
            X=0 Y=0
            Width=50 Height=10
            Attributes=3
            Text="Hello world1"
        >
    #)
    #(
        <$Row
            Billboard_="Billboard2"
            BBControl="Text2"
            Type="Text"
            X=0 Y=10
            Width=50 Height=10
            Attributes=3
            Text="Hello world2"
        >
    #)
<$/Table>


;--- Hook into the progress messages to cycle the billboards ----------------
<$Table "EventMapping">
    <$Row Dialog_="ProgressDlg" Control_="BillboardHost" Event="SetProgress" Attribute="Progress">
   ;<$Row Dialog_="ProgressDlg" Control_="BillboardHost" Event="ActionData"  Attribute="Text">  ;;Flashes then Hang
<$/Table>


;--- Where the billboard will go on the progress dialog. --------------------
<$Table "Control">
    ;--- Overwrites "ActionText" (this is just a hack for testing) ----------
    <$Row Dialog_="ProgressDlg" Control="BillboardHost" Type="Billboard" X=35 Y=150 Width=300 Height=90 Attributes=3>
<$/Table>

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