John Robbins wrote: > With WixUI_Advanced, clicking on the Advanced button gets me to a dialog that > says "[ProductName] will be installed in a per-user folder and be available > for your user account. You do not need local Administrator privileges." Kind > of a bummer that you can't change the directory, but I figure that's because > WiXUI_Advanced is for per machine installs not per user kind of things. > Looking at InstallScopeDlg.wxs, it doesn't look like there's any way to get > that dialog to work with per user installed, correct? >
WixUI_Advanced was something Rob and I designed and implemented in one night when figuring out what a good UX for the WiX installer would be. It succeeded there. The per-user stuff was there with the idea that we could support someone who just wanted to get the toolset out of the installer and didn't care about Votive et al that are per-machine pieces. Ideally we could ship just the .msi and not have to also maintain a .zip file. We never went that far (too many people like the .zips, including ourselves<g>) so the per-user stuff was never used and was therefore never proved. A couple of people have used it and contributed fixes, so it "probably mostly works." Long way of saying that I'm not surprised it's unpolished. > Sadly, the setting WIXUI_DONTVALIDATEPATH doesn't allow one to browse/show > shares because the file browse dialog doesn't show network paths. > > Anyway, I thought I would bring this different up to see if it was a bug or > by design. I guess the document folder redirection came long after Windows > Installer. :) > Dunno the timeline but it's fair to say that MSI doesn't explicitly support network installs and there are definitely some oddities around per-user data installs. For example, MSI resolves the paths at install time and is borked if an admin later moves the user's folders to a different server or share. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
