Matthew Toseland wrote:
> On Monday 24 August 2009 17:03:21 Zero3 wrote:
>> Matthew Toseland skrev:
>>> On Friday 21 August 2009 20:12:39 Zero3 wrote:
>>>> Matthew Toseland skrev:
>>>>> Here's another one:
>>>>>
>>>>> I accidentally built the installer with the beta branch. The tray icon
>>>>> worked, but when I uninstalled, and told it to do the survey, the survey
>>>>> failed (as usual), but control panel hung. Ideas? I think it might be
>>>>> waiting for firefox to close, but this is very bad behaviour, as there
>>>>> may be other stuff in firefox?
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't think this is specific to the beta branch - we wait for firefox
>>>>> (or whatever browser) to close before closing control panel.
>>>> Nop, it will not wait for the browser to close. It will exit right after
>>>> launching:
>>>>
>>>> [CODE]
>>>> If (_DoSurvey)
>>>> {
>>>> Run, http://freenetproject.org/uninstall.html, , UseErrorLevel
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> Exit()
>>>> [/CODE]
>>>>
>>>> (The execute-and-wait-for-it-to-finish command is called "RunWait" as
>>>> opposed to the "Run" used here which will continue right away)
>>>>
>>>> Are you sure that freenetuninstaller.exe is running while the control
>>>> panel hangs?
>>> I don't know. I do know that control panel hangs until the browser exists.
>> Odd. Maybe it also considers processes spawned by the uninstaller as
>> part of the uninstaller itself, and does not return control to the
>> control panel until all of these have terminated. Would make sense, as
>> uninstallers often continue in other processes than the originally
>> executed one (the wininstaller uninstaller included).
>>
>> Nevertheless, this is a design choice by Microsoft. If they want to
>> freeze out the user while any part of an uninstaller is running, I
>> shouldn't try to (and probably can't) get around it.
>
> There must be a way to detach it.
There might be. No idea how much hacking it would take though. IMHO I
don't think the minor usability issue is worth the hack.
On Vista I am able to close the control panel, although not start a new
uninstall before the browser is closed.
>> A possible workaround could be to add a message to the survey completion
>> page simply asking the user to close the window.
>
> Unfortunately it's broken atm.
Any update on this? Please at least remove the survey from
http://freenetproject.org/uninstall.html and replace it with a
"Temporary out of order" message or something. We are seriously wasting
people's time right now.
- Zero3
