Is there a tutorial somewhere on where to get the stock BA's source, and how to 
make various changes to it? The only tutorial I found involved cracking open 
Visual Studio, and seemed to involve recompiling the whole source and...yeah, a 
big hurdle to jump.


-----Original Message-----
From: Nicolás Alvarez [mailto:nicolas.alva...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 15:25
To: afor...@cmu.edu; General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: Bootstrapper -- Can it be UI-less?

The stock BA is open source. You don't need to start from scratch,
just modify the stock one.

-- 
Nicolás

2013/9/18 Alain Forget <afor...@cmu.edu>:
> It just seems like going from the stock BA to rolling your own custom BA just 
> to either get rid of the UI or add a single text box, radio button, or 
> window/step seems extremely costly in time and effort for what seems like a 
> minor modification.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 12:40
> To: afor...@cmu.edu; General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
> Subject: RE: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: Bootstrapper -- Can it be UI-less?
>
>   I believe the mantra is don't use installer UI's, use a BA UI.  As such, if 
> you need a custom UI then generate a BA to give the look and feel that you 
> want.  The reasoning behind having a BA UI is so you can have a single 
> unified installation experience. Having a chain of 5 MSI's all exposing their 
> own UI's would result in a choppy and subpar user experience.
>
>   That being said, WiX is open source, so anyone is free to contribute 
> enhancements.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alain Forget [mailto:afor...@cmu.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 11:31 AM
> To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: Bootstrapper -- Can it be UI-less?
>
> There seems to be a lot of demand for more control over installer and 
> bootstrapper UIs. Just out of curiosity, is this being worked on for future 
> WiX releases?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 12:27
> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
> Subject: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: Bootstrapper -- Can it be UI-less?
>
> Yes. You'd need to create a custom BA.
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 2:27 AM, nkshirsagar <nkshirsa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Rob and others on the mailing list!
>>
>> I'm wondering the same thing. I have a minimal UI msi that I've
>> customised slightly with logos and banners. I want this UI to run
>> immediately instead of the first screen that the botstrapper UI shows.
>> (licence agreement, etc).
>> The licence agreement gets shown twice as that screen is already in my
>> MSI UI. All I need the bootstrapper for, is to install .net 4.5 if its
>> not already present and then kick off my msi.
>>
>> Is there any way to achieve this ?
>>


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