> Good news is that the automatic JRE installation seems to work on XP, > but we still need others to test it on other platforms.
Yes. I've tried it on a Win 98 machine, but it didn't work. Having said that, I also tried downloading Sun's installer directly and installing that, and that didn't work either. This is a machine that hasn't even been booted for some years so I suspect that particular problem lies elsewhere! > For some unknown reason the JRE installation kinda freezes at the end, but > I have seen that before when installing JREs so I suspect that it is more > sun's fault than ours - and hopefully it is something peculiar to my > machine. I killed it, and the installation still seemed to proceed ok. > Still, it might be a good idea to install the JRE last. I've never seen Sun's JRE installer freeze on either Win2k or 98 so it may be peculiar to XP. I have access to an XP machine and I'll try it here shortly. Installing the JRE 'last' (last in what sense?) isn't really an option as the installer calls out to freenet.config (indirectly, through freenet.exe) a couple of times as installation steps. Obviously the JRE needs to be installed before this. If killing the JRE allows installation to proceed then it shouldn't really matter when the JRE is installed. But the installer actually requires a JRE to be present to complete the installation. > A few UI suggestions: > Dialog boxes are still used in a number of places to ask the user > questions, this really isn't in-keeping with the normal way that > installation wizards get information from the user. I agree... > Typically, they will use radio buttons, and if they absolutely need to > force the user to make a binary decision, they disable the Next button > until the user has made their selection. I think that we should use > this approach. I agree... > I think a dialog box is only appropriate in extreme circumstances (such > as an installation error), but should be avoided during the normal > course of installation. I agree... Well, I'm still spending most of my time touting my resume and working with agencies ... so unless someone offers me a good job out of the blue tomorrow (or freenetproject offers to pay me) it will simply take some time to get changed. The installer works for now, and it's a hell of a lot better than it was. d _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
