After making sure that all the window Text properties were correctly set and
still having the problem, I tried an experiment where I started Orca and
then attempted to uninstall it in Vista and in XP. Sure enough, the
FilesInUse dialog appeared in both cases. But the text displayed is
completely different. In XP, the FilesInUse displays Orca as:
"Untitled - Orca" (the same name that appears in the title bar)
In Vista's FilesInUse dialog, Orca is displayed as:
"Windows Installer Table Editor"
Obviously the new installer service is accessing a different value. But
what? I have searched through the Orca installer and I see no instances of
this string. It must be a value in Orca itself.
John
On 9/7/07, James Finnigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I assume it's from the window text. Based on that assumption, try
> setting the Text property on your winforms app and see if it is shown
> correctly in restart manager. Do you have a hidden window that it may be
> picking up instead?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> James
>
>
>
> *From:* John Lalande [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Friday, September 07, 2007 5:59 AM
> *To:* Bob Arnson; James Finnigan
> *Cc:* wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> *Subject:* Re: [WiX-users] problem with MsiRMFilesInUse dialog
>
>
>
> I have checked the verbose log file (using 'l*v' on the command line) and
> I don't see anything helpful. Early on, the restart manager session starts
> then nothing till the InstallValidate action where the log simply reports:
>
> [19:36:09:822]: RESTART MANAGER: The user chose to go on with the
> installation, although a reboot will be required.
>
> Then nothing more till the uninstall is finished.
>
> One thing that may impact the Restart Manager is that all of our forms are
> custom .Net forms. We do not use the standard Windows title bar; we draw
> our own vertical 'side bar'. I am assuming that the mechanism the Restart
> Manager uses to find the Window names is different than what was used in the
> past; and that our forms are not following that convention. Perhaps our
> custom form has an unset property that Restart Manager needs in order to get
> the display name. If I knew how Restart Manager gets the program name, I am
> hoping that we can update our product accordingly.
>
> It does find the window because if I choose to let the installer close my
> program, it does just that. Furthermore, because our product uses an
> out-of-proc COM server, that item *does* display but as the second item in
> the list where the first item is a blank line.
>
> John
>
> On 9/6/07, *James Finnigan* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Restart Manager registration is to allow the apps to keep their same state
> (e.g. open the same document just as the user had it before
> restarting). I would be surprised if it affect the UI like this. However,
> there are cases when restart manager can't get anything at all because in
> order to see who has a file open you need to be able to get a file handle
> yourself. If the file is opened with enough exclusivity, restart manager is
> unable to determine who has the file open. This may be what you're seeing -
> checking what Bob told you is a good way to see where the breakdown is.
>
> HTH,
> James
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Behalf Of Bob Arnson
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 5:07 PM
> To: John Lalande
> Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] problem with MsiRMFilesInUse dialog
>
> John Lalande wrote:
> > I am having a problem when uninstalling on Vista while my application
> > is running. The FilesInUse dialog certainly displays, unfortunately
> > the displayed list is completely empty.
> >
> > From where does the installer retrieve the application titles? On XP
> > the FilesInUse dialog correctly shows my running application.
> >
> > Is there something missing in my application? I seen some
> > documentation regarding registering with the Restart Manager. Is that
> > necessary for the Vista FilesInUse dialog to work correctly?
>
> MSI handles the Restart Manager integration; check a verbose log to see
> what info MSI is getting from RM.
>
> --
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> http://joyofsetup.com/
>
>
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