MSI UI shows "basic" on uninstall. I thought there was a fix to allow Modify to show Full UI... haven't looked in a long while.
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Jacob Baughman <jbaugh...@atlas-sys.com>wrote: > I've been having a lot of trouble getting this to work the way I'd like > and I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction. > > I've got a custom managed BA that is pretty bare bones and chains a .NET > prerequisite and my product's MSI. I'm specifying > MsiPackage/@DisplayInternalUI="yes" and using a combination of custom and > off-the-shelf dialogs to collect all the installation details I need. This > works great for installations but the MSI UI is suppressed whenever I try > to run the BA once the product is already installed. Whichever mode I try > to initiate, and whether from the command line or Programs and Features, > the MSI UI seems to be shut down, presumably by > msiengine.cpp:MsiEngineCalculateInstallUiLevel, which 'suppresses internal > UI during uninstall to mimic ARP and "msiexec /x" behavior'. > > Although I'm curious why the function enforces that behavior in the first > place, I'd really just like to know how I'm supposed take advantage of the > MSI's UI during repairs or changes. From the customers' perspective, > running the installer a second time doesn't do anything when they should be > seeing the change/repair/uninstall dialog that works fine when I run it > from the MSI. > > Thanks in advance for any assistance, and I'd also like to thank you all > for the help you've given me with my previous questions. > > Jacob Baughman > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
