Help showing a success/failure message

[brian75]

Hi Everyone,

I am using the RunWait command to install a program and would like to pop up a message box based on whether or not the program installed successfully.  What's the best way to do this?  I was thinking about using a select case statement based on the return value of the RunWait command (return value of 0 = install failed, return value of not 0 = install succeeded).  If this will work how do I capture the return value of the RunWait command to use in my select case statement?  I'm sure others have done something like this but couldn't find anything in the forums.  I may be just too ignorant to know what keywords to use in my search.  I greatly appreciate any help!

[JLogan3o13]

You can always do a simple If statement:

RunWait("MyApp.exe")
   If Not @error Then MsgBox(0, "", "Success!")

[Chimaera]

Or look for the exit code from the program and utilise that like above

[0xdefea7]

Checking the exit code of the run command is a good start. If it were me, I would check the file size of the main exe I was installing, then compare it against the actual size which I hardcode. Something like:

$iFileSize = 1024 ; or whatever the size is returned by (FileGetSize / 1024) 
RunWait("MyApp.exe")
If Not @error Then 
    If (FileGetSize("PathToMainExe.exe")/1024) = $iFileSize Then
        MsgBox(0, "", "Istallation success!")
    Else
        MsgBox(16, "Error", "Install failed.")
    EndIf
EndIf

[brian75]

Thanks for the responses everyone!  I ended up using your suggestion JLogan3o13...it looked easy and simple and it seems to work well.  Here's what I did:

If Not @error Then
        MsgBox (0, "Franson Install", "Franson Installed Successfully", 5)
    Else
    MsgBox (0, "Franson Install", "Franson Install Failed", 5)
EndIf