Oh snap, all my responses were under the impression that he was using Burn. I
now re-read it and realized this was WixUI_Minimal... Different problem domain,
different solutions.
The controls in question are one of these
<Control Id="ActionText" Type="Text" X="70" Y="100" Width="285"
Height="10">
<Subscribe Event="ActionText" Attribute="Text" />
</Control>
<Control Id="ProgressBar" Type="ProgressBar" X="20" Y="115"
Width="330" Height="10" ProgressBlocks="yes"
Text="!(loc.ProgressDlgProgressBar)">
<Subscribe Event="SetProgress" Attribute="Progress" />
</Control>
<Control Id="StatusLabel" Type="Text" X="20" Y="100" Width="50"
Height="10" Text="!(loc.ProgressDlgStatusLabel)" />
There has to be a few ways of doing this.
First try:
<UI>
<ProgressText Action="ExecuteAction">Creating system restore point, you
have time to go get a cup of coffee now...</ProgressText>
</UI>
The big stick approach would be to write a CustomAction which simply posts an
ActionData message and schedule this before ExecuteAction in the
InstallUISequence.
Note, burn turns off system restore for all the child MSI's as it's creating a
single restore point for the bundle, which if you are installing multiple MSI's
can be a huge time saver.
-----Original Message-----
From: Alain Forget [mailto:afor...@cmu.edu]
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2013 12:54 PM
To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] No user feedback during 3+ minute restore point
Interesting; it seems your experience differs from ours.
For us, this is happening on up-to-date Windows 7 Enterprise machines. We
currently don't use burn; just candle and light. Finally, I think our MSI needs
the minimal interface just so the user knows the installation is working and is
successful.
It's interesting the problem happens under different circumstances, which may
suggest it's not just something with our installer (thankfully).
Alain
-----Original Message-----
From: Wesley Manning [mailto:wmann...@dynagen.ca]
Sent: March 28, 2013 12:05
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] No user feedback during 3+ minute restore point
I've only seen this on Windows XP where the computer wasn't up-to-date with
Windows updates and in that case it took so long because the restore point
failed.
I use burn and have no GUI in my MSIs.
-----Original Message-----
From: Alain Forget [mailto:afor...@cmu.edu]
Sent: March-28-13 12:57 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] No user feedback during 3+ minute restore point
I can't be the only one with this or a similar problem of the installer hanging
for a long period of time without any useful information for the user.
Surely someone has some idea for solving this? Or should this be filed as some
kind of WiX bug report?
-----Original Message-----
From: Alain Forget [mailto:afor...@cmu.edu]
Sent: March 25, 2013 17:11
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: No user feedback during 3+ minute restore point
Our installer's logs show that it takes 3 minutes to create a restore point
before our software is installed, between the user accepting the EULA and the
UAC prompting the user for admin rights. The computers we've tested aren't very
old or underpowered either.
The problem is that, for those 3 minutes, the WixUI_Minimal interface we're
using only shows the user an uninformative "please wait while the software is
installed..." message with a progress bar that doesn't move during the restore
point creation. We're particularly concerned that users might think the
installer crashed and cancel the installation (and of course contact us
thinking there's a problem).
Since restore points are useful/important, trying to skip it wouldn't be great
for users who have it enabled. Would there be some way to let the user know
that a restore point is being created, and it could take several minutes, so
they should be patient?
I've had little luck inserting custom UIs panels in the WiXUI extension, so I'm
hoping there's something easy/simple we can do, without having to roll our own
UI altogether.
Alain
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Postdoctoral Researcher
CyLab, Carnegie Mellon University
afor...@cmu.edu
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