Re: [WiX-users] Redisplay MSI's UI when Bootstrapper is run a second time

2013-02-03 Thread Bruce Cran
You can't display a feature tree, but it does support adding checkboxes to the options page which can be used to select features. -- Bruce Cran Sent from my iPhone On 31 Jan 2013, at 17:54, Karl Werner wrote: > Can you have the wix standard bootstrapper prompt the user for feature > selectio

Re: [WiX-users] Redisplay MSI's UI when Bootstrapper is run a second time

2013-01-31 Thread Rob Mensching
ssible situations (installs/upgrades/repairs/etc). > > > -Original Message- > From: Karl Werner [mailto:karl.wer...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 11:54 AM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Redisplay MSI's UI

Re: [WiX-users] Redisplay MSI's UI when Bootstrapper is run a second time

2013-01-31 Thread Hoover, Jacob
sion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Redisplay MSI's UI when Bootstrapper is run a second time Can you have the wix standard bootstrapper prompt the user for feature selection? I haven't seen it do that . . . On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Rob Mensching wro

Re: [WiX-users] Redisplay MSI's UI when Bootstrapper is run a second time

2013-01-31 Thread Karl Werner
Can you have the wix standard bootstrapper prompt the user for feature selection? I haven't seen it do that . . . On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Rob Mensching wrote: > You can modify feature states via the BootstrapperApplication. > > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Karl Werner > wrote: >

Re: [WiX-users] Redisplay MSI's UI when Bootstrapper is run a second time

2013-01-31 Thread Hoover, Jacob
ndows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Redisplay MSI's UI when Bootstrapper is run a second time You can modify feature states via the BootstrapperApplication. On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Karl Werner wrote: > To close the loop on this, I ended up doing the fol

Re: [WiX-users] Redisplay MSI's UI when Bootstrapper is run a second time

2013-01-31 Thread Rob Mensching
You can modify feature states via the BootstrapperApplication. On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Karl Werner wrote: > To close the loop on this, I ended up doing the following: > > 1) Reverting to the Wix Standard Bootstrapper. (There is probably a way to > get my custom bootstrapper to work, bu

Re: [WiX-users] Redisplay MSI's UI when Bootstrapper is run a second time

2013-01-31 Thread Karl Werner
To close the loop on this, I ended up doing the following: 1) Reverting to the Wix Standard Bootstrapper. (There is probably a way to get my custom bootstrapper to work, but I exhausted enough time trying to figure it out. Somehow the Wix Standard Bootstrapper knows what mode to go into early in

Re: [WiX-users] Redisplay MSI's UI when Bootstrapper is run a second time

2013-01-30 Thread Karl Werner
Do basically there is no way to simulate the old bootstrapper from the old vdproj setup projects? It would be nice if we could configure for this behavior. I would expect many other shops would want the same behavior . . . Maybe something like an attribute on MSIPackage that is equivalent to "alw

Re: [WiX-users] Redisplay MSI's UI when Bootstrapper is run a second time

2013-01-29 Thread Bob Arnson
On 29-Jan-13 16:10, Karl Werner wrote: > However, still stuck on the original problem -> How can I get the MSI's UI > invoked on the second run of the bootstrapper. You can't. Burn needs to know the operation being performed which it can't if the operation is determined during the execution of the

Re: [WiX-users] Redisplay MSI's UI when Bootstrapper is run a second time

2013-01-29 Thread Karl Werner
. . > > >> Even if I take the InstallCondition out along with the second > > >> MsiPackage, I still don't get the UI on the second run of the > > bootstrapper. > > >> > > >> Thanks! > > >> > > >> Karl > >

Re: [WiX-users] Redisplay MSI's UI when Bootstrapper is run a second time

2013-01-29 Thread Hoover, Jacob
the > bootstrapper. > >> > >> Thanks! > >> > >> Karl > >> > >> > >> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Hoover, Jacob < > >> jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com> wrote: > >> > >>> My guess would be because you a

Re: [WiX-users] Redisplay MSI's UI when Bootstrapper is run a second time

2013-01-29 Thread Karl Werner
or both packages. > > -Original Message- > From: Karl Werner [mailto:karl.wer...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 11:12 AM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Redisplay MSI's UI when Bootstrapper is run a > se

Re: [WiX-users] Redisplay MSI's UI when Bootstrapper is run a second time

2013-01-29 Thread Hoover, Jacob
Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Redisplay MSI's UI when Bootstrapper is run a second time While I'm still stuck on the core issue here of not being able to redisplay the UI from the bootstrapper, I thought I'd document another way around the ancillary uninstal

Re: [WiX-users] Redisplay MSI's UI when Bootstrapper is run a second time

2013-01-29 Thread Karl Werner
d time, the 32bit MsiPackage is going to detect based on upgrade code. >>> Because your InstallCondition evaluates to false, it schedules the removal >>> of it. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Karl Werner [mailto:karl.wer...@gmail.com] >>

Re: [WiX-users] Redisplay MSI's UI when Bootstrapper is run a second time

2013-01-29 Thread Karl Werner
- >> From: Karl Werner [mailto:karl.wer...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 9:32 AM >> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Redisplay MSI's UI when Bootstrapper is run a >> second time >> >> There appear to

Re: [WiX-users] Redisplay MSI's UI when Bootstrapper is run a second time

2013-01-29 Thread Karl Werner
code. > Because your InstallCondition evaluates to false, it schedules the removal > of it. > > -Original Message- > From: Karl Werner [mailto:karl.wer...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 9:32 AM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [WiX-users]

Re: [WiX-users] Redisplay MSI's UI when Bootstrapper is run a second time

2013-01-29 Thread Hoover, Jacob
...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 9:32 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Redisplay MSI's UI when Bootstrapper is run a second time There appear to be 2 distinct problems here: 1) MSI's UI is not redisplayed on subsequent bootstrapper execution.

Re: [WiX-users] Redisplay MSI's UI when Bootstrapper is run a second time

2013-01-29 Thread Karl Werner
There appear to be 2 distinct problems here: 1) MSI's UI is not redisplayed on subsequent bootstrapper execution. 2) Install Conditions are not behaving as I expect. I've discovered that the uninstall is happening because I have two msi packages, one for 64-bit, and another for 32-bit. These msi'

[WiX-users] Redisplay MSI's UI when Bootstrapper is run a second time

2013-01-29 Thread Karl Werner
Currently we have a Wix Bundle that provides minimal interaction through a custom .Net UI. We don't have the Bundle name set so the bootstrapper won't get registered in ARP (by design). It then chains some pre-rquisites and our product. Our product is an MsiPackage, something like this: