Thanks for answering! If a quiet bootstrapper is what you want, take a look at writing a custom one. You have total control over every aspect of the UI so you can show as little or as much as you like.
There's not a lot of documentation, but the WiX bootstrapper itself is very well done and was what I used to get started. Over a year ago I did a custom bootstapper with Burn that had all sorts of crazy UI logic because the installer did six web sites, seven services, and all pieces could be installed in any number of machines. John Co-founder - Wintellect<http://www.wintellect.com> @JohnWintellect<https://twitter.com/#!/JohnWintellect> | Blog<http://www.wintellect.com/CS/Blogs/jrobbins/default.aspx> +1-206-321-7341 On Jul 12, 2012, at 3:40 PM, Darwin Baines wrote: I may have taken the wrong approach and this may become a non-issue once the documentation comes out and clears things up, but I was looking to make a quiet bootstrapper whose only dialog was the “usage” help page; kind of an incremental step from a straight MSI to a bootstrapper, where the MSI dialogs are still used but I can at least take advantage of the pre-req functionality and launch conditions available in the unmanaged bootstrapper. I fiddled around with the “Foundation” variant of the standard bootstrapper, but it still seemed to need EULA dialogs, Success/Failure dialogs etc. Maybe I gave up too early on this. So my next step was to go look at the WixStdBA source code. It seemed like it would be pretty easy to rip out all the dialogs (pages) except the help page and manipulate it all to step through everything without the user interaction. So having done this, and gotten it to work I’m at the stage of wondering what would be the ramification if we were to distribute it with our product and if it will be a common problem with others. Thanks for your interest. Darwin From: John Robbins [mailto:j...@wintellect.com] Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 3:44 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Cc: Darwin Baines Subject: RE: BalExtension and the Common Public License Sensitivity: Personal Out of pure curiosity, why would you need to do your own custom bootstrapper? The WiX Burn bootstrapper is incredibly flexible and allows you to completely control everything I can imagine anyone would need. What does Burn not do that you need? Thanks for satisfying my curiosity. John Co-founder – Wintellect<http://www.wintellect.com/> @JohnWintellect<https://twitter.com/#!/JohnWintellect> | Blog<http://www.wintellect.com/CS/Blogs/jrobbins/default.aspx> +1-206-321-7341 -----Original Message----- From: Darwin Baines [mailto:da...@microsoft.com]<mailto:[mailto:da...@microsoft.com]> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 1:58 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: [WiX-users] BalExtension and the Common Public License Sensitivity: Personal I am looking into possibility of creating my own bootstrapper that tweaks the standard bootstrapper. I assume that if I write my bootstrapper from scratch, I shouldn't run into complications, but if I start with the standard bootstrapper code and make some changes that fits my situation, I've created a derivative work and therefore would be required to make the source code publicly available. (At least according to Wikipedia) I imagine there will be people looking to have a place to start with, and the standard bootstrapper source code is where they will probably go. Has this been discussed? Are there any plans to address this? Perhaps a bootstrapper template that is released under less restrictive terms where derivative source code isn't required to be made public availability. Or perhaps a more configurable bootstrapper where dialogs can be suppressed and custom dialogs can be added. Thanks Darwin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats.http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
