Re: [WiX-users] How to suppress the StdBA Bootstrapper UI

2014-11-07 Thread ssmsam
Ahh!! That is really in detail and most helpful. Thank you very much for the helpful links and in details. Regards, Sampat -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/How-to-suppress-the-StdBA-Bootstrapper-UI-tp7597705p7597819.html Sent from

Re: [WiX-users] How to suppress the StdBA Bootstrapper UI

2014-11-05 Thread Phill Hogland
Regarding using BAFunctions.dll for DelayStart, it has been about a year since I used that feature and then abandoned that code in favor of creating a WPF managed BA (which I would also recommend, but you could use any UX framework - MFC, WCF, Java?smile/). But as I recall the basic steps are: 1)

Re: [WiX-users] How to suppress the StdBA Bootstrapper UI

2014-11-04 Thread Hoover, Jacob
@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] How to suppress the StdBA Bootstrapper UI Hi, I have chained a single msi package(with DisplayInternalUI option being true) inside the StdBA using wix 3.9 toolset. My questions are as follows, 1). Can we *suppress the small StdBA UI* which

Re: [WiX-users] How to suppress the StdBA Bootstrapper UI

2014-11-04 Thread Rob Mensching
] Sent: Tuesday, November 4, 2014 6:56 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to suppress the StdBA Bootstrapper UI 1) Not what it was designed to do. Instead of trying to fight burn, why not try to embrace it. Create a single unified user experience in the BA

Re: [WiX-users] How to suppress the StdBA Bootstrapper UI

2014-11-04 Thread ssmsam
Hi Hoover, Jacob, Thank you very much for your suggestions. We have 5 components of our product. 2 are the main components and 3 are the client tools for interaction. The 2 main comps should take 2 users-details as input (domain, usrname n pwd) (which ll later ,during installation, be qualified

Re: [WiX-users] How to suppress the StdBA Bootstrapper UI

2014-11-04 Thread ssmsam
HI, Can we add something that skips the cpu cycles and that adds some delay before the Detect is Completed. So that this gives an impression like the splash stays for some amount of time?(Just a vague idea). Any thoughts? Regards, Sampat. -- View this message in context:

Re: [WiX-users] How to suppress the StdBA Bootstrapper UI

2014-11-04 Thread Rob Mensching
: Re: [WiX-users] How to suppress the StdBA Bootstrapper UI HI, Can we add something that skips the cpu cycles and that adds some delay before the Detect is Completed. So that this gives an impression like the splash stays for some amount of time?(Just a vague idea). Any thoughts? Regards

Re: [WiX-users] How to suppress the StdBA Bootstrapper UI

2014-11-04 Thread ssmsam
Ohh!! Sounds great!!Nice to know about this. So, i will quickly add a custom action which will have a sleep() for some amount of time. @Rob: Thanks for the confirmation. Could you please share the approaches for dealing with the changes have to be done to build a older version .wixproj(created

Re: [WiX-users] How to suppress the StdBA Bootstrapper UI

2014-11-04 Thread Phill Hogland
I agree with Jacob's recommendation that writing a mba to display your UX and hide or don't implement the UX in each msi (or exe prereq like VC) is much prefered. This approach works great and is much better than fighting the intended design of burn. The wix source includes a good example

Re: [WiX-users] How to suppress the StdBA Bootstrapper UI

2014-11-04 Thread ssmsam
Ahh!! Thanks for the MsiProperty :) . Later i realized it and now the way is clear for me. :) For UIs, which among the following i have to choose 1. ThemeFiles(.xml) or 2. WPF ? Thanks for the BAFunctions. I tried adding reference to BAFunctions alone to use the Delay() Function, but got error

[WiX-users] How to suppress the StdBA Bootstrapper UI

2014-11-03 Thread ssmsam
Hi, I have chained a single msi package(with DisplayInternalUI option being true) inside the StdBA using wix 3.9 toolset. My questions are as follows, 1). Can we *suppress the small StdBA UI* which will be displayed in the background till the installation of chained msi completes.? In this case