I still feel this is complicated and only hope it is not the model installers
will use (I never used the basic WixUI_Minimal for the same reason). I took a
look at the VS 11 install and was equally unimpressed - maybe I am just being a
luddite.
I am disappointed that the old WiX UIs won't be present they helped create a
consistent and tidy approach to installs. To me installs should look the same
as the OS and conform to a standard - that won't happen until the installer is
part of the OS but at least most installs adopt the Wizard approach so users
are not surprised by something different.
I guess I am on my own and will have to write on myself.
Neil
From: Bob Arnson [mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com]
Sent: 23 January 2012 00:03
To: wix-devs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] New bootstrap UI
On 22-Jan-12 17:56, Neil Sleightholm wrote:
I get an "Updating" box that never stops spinning - what does that mean?
It means that the code that checks the WiX release feed is still pointing at
SourceForge, so it tries in vain to report whether you're installing the latest
version of WiX.
If I click "Install" what will happen?
The same thing that happens in WixUI when you click Install.
What are all these weird new buttons?
License shows the license, nothing new there. Install starts the install, same.
News launches the news page on wixtoolset.org. Exit seems fairly
self-explanatory.<g>
I think you're engaging in hyperbole. Yes, it looks different but buttons are
still buttons. Would an old-school UI with stock OS buttons be better? Or would
it just look more familiar?
Other than the core WiX features that make creating Windows Installers easy,
one of the best features of WiX since v2 has been a good UI. My end users
understood it. I understood it. But this doesn't seem to be a step forward. I
know I can write own but I don't want too and in the past WiX has given me a
good UI that I can be proud of.
This is the WiX BA, not the WixStdBA that you get "for free" with Burn. It
exists in part as a demo of using Xaml and managed code to create a custom BA.
WixStdBA is similar in functionality to WixUI_Minimal.
I was really looking forward to burn but this has really disappointed me (I
know this isn't the core of what burn is about).
Correct. Most early adopters of Burn within Microsoft have written their own
BA. (Visual Studio "11" is the only one I know about that's publicly known; it
too has a Xaml-based BA with plenty of superfluous animation and other
ugliness.<g>)
I do apologise for appearing negative but just thought this worthy of
discussion.
Standing by to be flamed...
No flames but saying that a button labeled "Install" is confusing doesn't seem
worth a lot of discussion. If you're expecting the BA equivalent of all the
WixUI dialog sets in WiX v3.6, you'll be disappointed.
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