Re: [WiX-users] Questions on more advanced WiX Installer UI

2009-10-26 Thread Sascha Beaumont
o helps mitigate some of the (very > good) points you raise W.R.T. install-time checks like we're doing. > > Thanks again for your feedback > -Dan > > -Original Message- > From: Sascha Beaumont [mailto:sascha.beaum...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 22, 200

Re: [WiX-users] Questions on more advanced WiX Installer UI

2009-10-23 Thread Dan Giambalvo
s again for your feedback -Dan -Original Message- From: Sascha Beaumont [mailto:sascha.beaum...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 7:16 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Questions on more advanced WiX Installer UI Hi Dan, Thi

Re: [WiX-users] Questions on more advanced WiX Installer UI

2009-10-22 Thread Sascha Beaumont
Hi Dan, This sounds like something similar to what we were trying to do with our installer. The question you should ask yourself is do you need to do this during installation, or could you move some of these steps to a post-install phase? What we ended up doing is for interactive installations, l

Re: [WiX-users] Questions on more advanced WiX Installer UI

2009-10-22 Thread Dan Giambalvo
al discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Questions on more advanced WiX Installer UI True, but the progress bar is only available during InstallExecute sequence. My understanding was that this "spinner" needed to happen during the UI sequence. If I misund

Re: [WiX-users] Questions on more advanced WiX Installer UI

2009-10-22 Thread Rob Mensching
True, but the progress bar is only available during InstallExecute sequence. My understanding was that this "spinner" needed to happen during the UI sequence. If I misunderstood then Tony's suggestion is a good one. On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 5:36 AM, Tony wrote: > You might be able to use a progre

Re: [WiX-users] Questions on more advanced WiX Installer UI

2009-10-22 Thread Tony
You might be able to use a progress bar type behavior. That is supported within Windows Installer. We have a custom action that can take a long time to finish. We added progress bar "ticks" to the custom action that provide feed back to the UI. Might be worth checking out. Though you need to s

Re: [WiX-users] Questions on more advanced WiX Installer UI

2009-10-21 Thread Rob Mensching
1. Not that I know of. 2. Not that I know of. Unfortunately, to get that kind of advanced UI, you probably will have to go to an External UI handler. Note, that is a huge leap in terms of work necessary. On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Dan Giambalvo wrote: > I'm working on some enhancements to