[WiX-users] multiple 'Open' extensions added by multiple installs

[Jacek Pospychała]

hi,

my installer adds 'Open' option in 'PHP' files context menu with following
WIX code:



   

 

 

   

 


The problem is that I allow multiple versions of the application to be
installed on the system and each installer adds it's own 'Open' option.

Is there a way to add only one 'Open' action?
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Re: [WiX-users] minor issues with WiX installer gui

[Jacek Pospychała]

thanks a lot Bob.
MSI logs already surprised me in a good way so I'll need to try it out.

By any chance, can you tell how to find in log, when a button (e.g.
"Repair") have been pressed or when did the progress dialog appeared?

thanks

Jacek

2010/3/18 Bob Arnson 

> On 3/17/2010 6:08 AM, Jacek Pospychała wrote:
> > This time, it's WiX dialog. On attached screenshot you can see which
> exactly
> > button is stuck.
> >
>
> Check a verbose log and you'll see what's taking the time.
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Re: [WiX-users] customising dialogs

[Jacek Pospychała]

hi,
see topic "Changing the UI sequence of a built-in dialog set" at
http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/WixUI_customizations.htm

Assuming that you're using Wix_InstallDir GUI mode, here you can see how it
is implemented:
http://wix.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/wix/wix/src/ext/UIExtension/wixlib/WixUI_InstallDir.wxs?view=markup

You need to copy and paste that to your own wxs file and update the
references between pages.
To remove License agreement and install dir you would change this part:

1
1
LicenseAccepted = "1"

1
1
NOT WIXUI_DONTVALIDATEPATH

WIXUI_DONTVALIDATEPATH OR
WIXUI_INSTALLDIR_VALID="1"
1
1

NOT Installed
Installed

to look like this:

1

NOT Installed
Installed

You may also want to use some other predefined WiX UI.

HTH

Jacek


On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Eswari  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> How to suppress licenseagreement dialog and and installdirdialog(option for
> the user to select the installtion path) as i do not want show up these
> dialogs as mine is a simple installer.
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Re: [WiX-users] minor issues with WiX installer gui

[Jacek Pospychała]

This time, it's WiX dialog. On attached screenshot you can see which exactly
button is stuck.

thanks for the disk space information!

Jacek


2010/3/16 Wilson, Phil 

> Is the repair a WiX dialog? These are typically standard Windows Installer
> dialogs.
>
> Disk space:
>
>
> http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2008/07/24/why-windows-installer-may-require-so-much-disk-space.aspx
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> Phil Wilson
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> Subject: [WiX-users] minor issues with WiX installer gui
>
> hi WiXers,
> I'd like to share with you my excitement that product I'm working with, has
> almost ready MSI installer thanks to WiX!
> I still have some questions though :-)
>
> 1. We noticed that when pressing "Repair" or "Remove" button - on the last
> page of Repair and Remove wizards respectively, GUI hangs for significant
> time before going to the progress dialog. In this sate "Repair" button
> remains pressed, and only busy cursor icon indicates that something is
> going
> on. With Process Monitor that explorer.exe is going thru all the
> application
> files performing operations: CreateFile, QueryBasicInformationFile,
> QueryStandardInformationFile, CloseFile, CreateFileMapping, etc.
>
> What's happening after pressing those buttons and before going to the
> progress dialog? Is there any way to control that? At worst it takes up to
> few minutes! (Our application is big)
>
> 2. The application requires 500MB disk space. This is correctly reflected
> in
> CustomDlg, which shows correct features sizes. However "Required Space"
> dialog says that 1G is required. How is required space calculated by
> default?
>
>
> thanks
>
> Jacek
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Re: [WiX-users] Adding multiple files to component

[Jacek Pospychała]

you can try use heat to generate files index for you automatically.
There's more help about it in this tutorial lesson:
http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson6.php

HTH

Jacek


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> I'm sure this question has been asked before in some variety but searching
> the mail archives on SourceForge is awful.   I am also new to WIX
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> Anyways, in my build process I am outputting a bunch of files to a
> directory.  I want all those files added to a component in my WIX project.
>  To build my WIX project, during my build process I just build my WIX
> installer solution and it creates the setup package.  So besides manually
> adding all these files (~50) to my component by hand, I don't understand how
> to accomplish this.  All the tutorials just use one file in there examples.
>  No one uses adding files from a source directory.
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Re: [WiX-users] Component spans multiple directories

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hi Bill,
put all components from different directories into single ComponentGroup and
then refer to it instead of components.

HTH

Jacek


On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Bill McCormick wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a product user manual component (it's some legacy html
> documentation) that needs to span multiple directories. Is there an
> efficient way to handle this without making a component for each
> directory of files?
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[WiX-users] minor issues with WiX installer gui

[Jacek Pospychała]

hi WiXers,
I'd like to share with you my excitement that product I'm working with, has
almost ready MSI installer thanks to WiX!
I still have some questions though :-)

1. We noticed that when pressing "Repair" or "Remove" button - on the last
page of Repair and Remove wizards respectively, GUI hangs for significant
time before going to the progress dialog. In this sate "Repair" button
remains pressed, and only busy cursor icon indicates that something is going
on. With Process Monitor that explorer.exe is going thru all the application
files performing operations: CreateFile, QueryBasicInformationFile,
QueryStandardInformationFile, CloseFile, CreateFileMapping, etc.

What's happening after pressing those buttons and before going to the
progress dialog? Is there any way to control that? At worst it takes up to
few minutes! (Our application is big)

2. The application requires 500MB disk space. This is correctly reflected in
CustomDlg, which shows correct features sizes. However "Required Space"
dialog says that 1G is required. How is required space calculated by
default?


thanks

Jacek
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Re: [WiX-users] heat.exe popping up a dialog

[Jacek Pospychała]

ok, I figured out adding "-sreg" to heat command line does the trick.

anyway, I'm still interested to learn, how the DLL is processed that it can
throw a popup..

Jacek


2010/3/3 Jacek Pospychała 

> hi,
>
> I'm generating wxs file for Sun Java Runtime using heat and unfortunately
> during this process, heat/jre popups an error dialog saying "Java Plug-in
> 1.6.0_18 is not installed properly".
> This happens for two DLL files inside JRE and turns our sleek fully
> automated process into manual nightmare :-)
>
> Is it possible to configure heat to avoid that? (I guess to NOT
> load/execute DLL code)
> Also what are consequences of indexing DLL file as plain  entry
> without all it's extra DLL related metadata?
>
>
> thanks
>
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[WiX-users] heat.exe popping up a dialog

[Jacek Pospychała]

hi,

I'm generating wxs file for Sun Java Runtime using heat and unfortunately
during this process, heat/jre popups an error dialog saying "Java Plug-in
1.6.0_18 is not installed properly".
This happens for two DLL files inside JRE and turns our sleek fully
automated process into manual nightmare :-)

Is it possible to configure heat to avoid that? (I guess to NOT load/execute
DLL code)
Also what are consequences of indexing DLL file as plain  entry
without all it's extra DLL related metadata?


thanks

Jacek
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Re: [WiX-users] questions about installer speed and progress monitoring

[Jacek Pospychała]

Bob,
What kind of failures are handled by this rollback feature? Is it failure
like user pressing "cancel" during installation, or rather disk failure, or
privileges problem, or files conflict, or something else?
I'm trying to asses, how much I need it.

Is it possible to switch off that rollback and related bookkeeping?

Generally I'd prefer 90% of my users have faster install, rather than 1% of
them be able to use rollback when they need it.
Unless this rollback is used by more than 1% of the users... :-)

thanks
Jacek


On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Bob Arnson  wrote:

> On 2/19/2010 4:37 AM, Jacek Pospychała wrote:
> > Do you know what extra does the installer do, that takes so much time?
>
> It supports rollback which entails extra bookkeeping to be able to
> restore files on failure.
>
> > And
> > does it make any change if I e.g. split it to more features, or more
> > components.
> >
>
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[WiX-users] minor issue with documentation

[Jacek Pospychała]

hi

I have no idea how this could happen, but there's little bug on the docs
page http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/main.htm
The title there says: "Windows Installer XML (WiX)
v[[Version.Major]].[[Version.Minor]] Help" - I guess the brackets part
should be repleaced with real version numbers there...

other than that, WiX has awesome docs, thanks guys!

Jacek
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[WiX-users] questions about installer speed and progress monitoring

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hi,
I'm building an MSI package using WiX for an application consisting of about
2 files in 1800 folders, total of ~500MB uncompressed.
It's built as a single feature, with component per each folder. Installer's
single task is to copy all the files, there's no DLLs to register, etc.

Ready MSI takes about 10minutes to install and over 20minutes to uninstall.
Compared to ZIP package, unzipping it takes 4,5min and removing is below
2minutes.
So MSI is quite long IMHO, which makes me wonder what contributes to this
times and how they could be optimized.

Do you know what extra does the installer do, that takes so much time? And
does it make any change if I e.g. split it to more features, or more
components.
We're not making the full use of such MSI features as update so maybe we
could sacrifice something for better install times?

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