[wpkg-users] [Bug 171] User notification does not work on Vista

2009-09-07 Thread bugzilla-daemon
http://bugzilla.wpkg.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171 --- Comment #3 from ralf.lede...@ite.uni-stuttgart.de 2009-09-07 09:37:58 --- Thank you for the quick response. It seems that you can send a message longer than 256 characters with msg.exe, if you deliver it by stdin: echo very long message |

Re: [wpkg-users] [Bug 171] User notification does not work on Vista

2009-09-07 Thread Robin Roevens
...@wpkg.org To: Robin Roevens robin.roev...@cocks.be Cc: wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org Date: 04.09.2009 17:32 Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] [Bug 171] User notification does not work on Vista Hi Robin, Robin Roevens wrote: Maybe it is a good idea to supply a small executable

[wpkg-users] [Bug 171] User notification does not work on Vista

2009-09-07 Thread bugzilla-daemon
http://bugzilla.wpkg.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171 --- Comment #4 from Rainer Meier r.me...@wpkg.org 2009-09-07 10:57:26 --- Very nice... what a crap... Actually the quotes for the echo command are not required. If you use them they will be passed to msg.exe and appear as a part of the piped

Re: [wpkg-users] [Bug 171] User notification does not work on Vista

2009-09-07 Thread Pendl Stefan
--- Comment #4 from Rainer Meier r.me...@wpkg.org 2009-09-07 10:57:26 --- Very nice... what a crap... Actually the quotes for the echo command are not required. If you use them they will be passed to msg.exe and appear as a part of the piped characters. Moreover the solution has some

Re: [wpkg-users] [Bug 171] User notification does not work on Vista

2009-09-07 Thread Rainer Meier
Hi Stefan, Redirect the input from a file: Msg.exe MyText.txt WPKG does not use any temporary files. I will not start using such work-arounds and hacks just for a feature which is very rarely used. Especially since longer messages than 256 characters are also not very user friendly (who is

[wpkg-users] [Bug 171] User notification does not work on Vista

2009-09-04 Thread bugzilla-daemon
http://bugzilla.wpkg.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171 Rainer Meier r.me...@wpkg.org changed: What|Removed |Added Status|NEW |ASSIGNED CC|

[wpkg-users] [Bug 171] User notification does not work on Vista

2009-09-04 Thread bugzilla-daemon
http://bugzilla.wpkg.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171 Rainer Meier r.me...@wpkg.org changed: What|Removed |Added Status|ASSIGNED|RESOLVED Resolution|

Re: [wpkg-users] [Bug 171] User notification does not work on Vista

2009-09-04 Thread Rainer Meier
Hi Robin, Robin Roevens wrote: Maybe it is a good idea to supply a small executable in the tools directory that will be used for notifying the user? That way you are not dependent on a Microsoft ways of notifying users, thus not windows-version dependent. (except for binary incompatible

Re: [wpkg-users] [Bug 171] User notification does not work on Vista

2009-09-04 Thread mscdex
On 9/4/09, Rainer Meier r.me...@wpkg.org wrote: We already know that especially on Windows Vista and newer we have troubles with the logon delay feature. Including such actions into wpkg.js seems not to be a good idea; I prefer wpkg.js to be as stable and reliable as possible and leaving

Re: [wpkg-users] [Bug 171] User notification does not work on Vista

2009-09-04 Thread Rainer Meier
Hi, mscdex wrote: What about implementing some sort of an event-hook notification functionality where wpkg.js could call functions located in separate JS file(s) (if available), so that custom solutions could be used. For example, when wpkg.js detects that changes (whether installation,