I tried searching for this feature request and couldn't find it. I'm pondering
the usefulness of a bundle defaults option, where the bundle could use an INI
file to load the default values for variables. I know you can pass command line
parameters to a bundle to set them, but I was thinking an INI file might be
useful in the cases where an admin configures the install preferences once from
a network share, and the bundle could then be ran by multiple users and inherit
those values.
The way I would see this working is similar to how all the other existing
Searches work. This means a change to the Util extension to allow for a
ReadINI option (only in scope for burn) and a modification to the engine to
assign variables the values of the ini if the file exists. If the file doesn't
exist, simply ignore any processing. In the bundle, I would expect to see
something like...
<Variable Name="NetworkShare" Persisted="yes" Type="string" />
<Variable Name="AutomaticUpdates" Persisted="yes" Type="numeric" Value="#1" />
<util:ReadINI Name="Setup.ini" Section="Options" Name="NetworkShare"
Variable="NetworkShare" />
<util:ReadINI Name="Setup.ini" Section="Options" Name="AutomaticUpdates"
Variable="EnableUpdates" />
And then these values could be mirrored on the Options page of
the bundle with:
<Page Name="Options">
<Text X="11" Y="80" Width="-11" Height="30" FontId="2"
DisablePrefix="yes">#(loc.OptionsHeader)</Text>
<Text X="11" Y="121" Width="-11" Height="17" FontId="3"
DisablePrefix="yes">#(loc.OptionsLocationLabel)</Text>
<Editbox Name="NetworkShare " X="11" Y="143" Width="-91" Height="21"
TabStop="yes" FontId="3" FileSystemAutoComplete="yes" />
<Checkbox Name="AutomaticUpdates " X="11" Y="165" Width="-91"
Height="17" TabStop="yes" FontId="3"
HideWhenDisabled="yes">#(loc.AutomaticUpdatesCheckbox)</Checkbox>
<Button Name="BrowseButton" X="-11" Y="142" Width="75" Height="23"
TabStop="yes" FontId="3">#(loc.OptionsBrowseButton)</Button>
<Button Name="OptionsOkButton" X="-91" Y="-11" Width="75" Height="23"
TabStop="yes" FontId="0">#(loc.OptionsOkButton)</Button>
<Button Name="OptionsCancelButton" X="-11" Y="-11" Width="75"
Height="23" TabStop="yes" FontId="0">#(loc.OptionsCancelButton)</Button>
</Page>
In order to support this I would again have to enhance
WixStdBA, so I am wondering how useful this would be outside of my realm before
I put in the effort of the modifications.
Thanks,
Jacob
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