Note: I don't know that all the developers on the WiX toolset believe that Burn based installs should display single unified UI by suppressing internal MSI UI, but I do.
However, Burn certainly supports showing internal MSI UI. In fact, in v3.8 FireGiant found and fixed a bug related to showing progress during internal MSI UI ( https://wix.codeplex.com/SourceControl/network/forks/firegiant/dev/contribution/5197 ). On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Nicolás Alvarez <nicolas.alva...@gmail.com>wrote: > As far as I know, suppressing the Burn UI and using only the MSI UI is > not how Burn is *supposed* to be used. Why would the WiX developers > spend time and effort to make it easier to use in that way? > > -- > Nicolás > > 2013/9/18 Alain Forget <afor...@cmu.edu>: > > Which I think reinforces my point. It's not clear to me why it needs to > take lots of time and effort just to suppress a UI, or make minor changes > to an existing UI. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 15:58 > > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: Bootstrapper -- Can it be UI-less? > > > > It's not trivial to create a custom BA. It takes time and effort. > > > > > > On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Alain Forget <afor...@cmu.edu> wrote: > > > >> I don't mean compile and setup time. I mean time and effort for someone > >> completely unfamiliar with the WiX source and whatever may be involved > in > >> rolling a custom bootstrapper (like myself and most other people on here > >> who ask how to do what doesn't seem like a complex request). > >> > >> Sure, for you and other WiX pros working on it for years, building the > >> code and rolling your own custom BA is trivial. But for the rest of us > >> non-WiX devs, especially those of us relatively new to it, it's far from > >> trivial, and it seems like a lot (read: too much) to learn and figure > out > >> just a little UI change, like removing the UI, or adding a field, > checkbox, > >> label, or window/wizard step. > >> > >> My point is that you might want to consider making WiX-built installers' > >> UIs easier for developers to customise without having to crack open and > >> customise the source code (which I can only imagine can create problems > >> when trying to keep up with updates to the main code). > >> > >> Alain > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] > >> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 15:42 > >> To: afor...@cmu.edu; General discussion for Windows Installer XML > toolset. > >> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: Bootstrapper -- Can it be UI-less? > >> > >> On my 5 year old machine it takes 5 minutes to build all of the WiX > >> toolset source. That isn't *that* long is it? Seems like a reasonable > >> amount of time to build a project of our size. There is documentation in > >> the WiX.chm with instructions how to build. > >> > >> > >> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Alain Forget <afor...@cmu.edu> wrote: > >> > >> > >> 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. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > LIMITED TIME SALE - Full Year of Microsoft Training For Just $49.99! > 1,500+ hours of tutorials including VisualStudio 2012, Windows 8, > SharePoint > 2013, SQL 2012, MVC 4, more. BEST VALUE: New Multi-Library Power Pack > includes > Mobile, Cloud, Java, and UX Design. Lowest price ever! Ends 9/20/13. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LIMITED TIME SALE - Full Year of Microsoft Training For Just $49.99! 1,500+ hours of tutorials including VisualStudio 2012, Windows 8, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, MVC 4, more. BEST VALUE: New Multi-Library Power Pack includes Mobile, Cloud, Java, and UX Design. Lowest price ever! Ends 9/20/13. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
