Wraith

Okay, if I do installation selection... it's not going to be normal XPlode GUI, it'll be standard windows and controls etc. If you people can live with that, I'll add optional support for popping up another dialog before the main XPlode one. Should hopefully be a couple of hours to do this way, if I did it with the XPlode UI, it'd take a heck of a long time, which was why I was avoiding it. So, if ppl are happy with it, I'll do it that way... I'll be back home in 6 or so hours after my last class at uni, so that's when I plan to start coding. You people decide.

What speed issue?

@prathapml: You're going to have to explain a bit better than that Can't you just use <show total='-1'> ? @Alanoll: Shh. Only when SP2 is released.

I read this at your documentation and in the forum, but when I try to save in unicode, the xml won't work! I dunno why! What Programming is XPLode, is it C-Code? Have a nice day, Sie Tjin Kian Yes, I saw the DLL, but you'd still need to link it through another plugin. I'm not going to put it straight into XPlode. You have to be using 1.0.5? for unicode to work. If it's still not working, and you're sure it's in unicode, attach the XML here. It's C++.

I won't be providing a CHM any longer - I had planned to update the site so it used the database for configuration docs. This is going to be the main priority over the break. If I have my way, ALL documentation will be working at the end of THIS week. I don't know about the netsh stuff, maybe you could find a list of things, and see whether they run mid-install. (Shift+F10 to get a command prompt during installation - try them there as some things may not work...) As for the AutoIt stuff, I've never used it before... looking at the introduction, there's a way to make them into executables, so maybe that would be easier. As far as using the DLL, it would probably be more like adding a plugin rather than building support into XPlode natively. (this cuts down the internal complexity) The netsh would probably be best implemented as a plugin as well. The XML has to be in unicode. Any program that supports unicode text files should be able to be used with the xml's XPlode uses.

I'll be off uni next friday, for a week and a half. (Yay for the uni following the easter holiday tradiition...) What this means, essentially, is that I'll have 10x more time to add/fix stuff in XPlode. SO... you people have 3 days to think up what you need. One thing planned is the optional redrawing of the XPlode GUI-install background. Lucky thing for you lot, I still have the code lying around for it, so it won't be too much of a problem to reimplement. As I've been busy for the last couple of weeks, you people are going to have to remind me of what else needed doing. I'll add a poll soon of what I remember needs doing.

Funnily enough, the answer is in the thread below this one. Who would've thought? http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=15076

I think you need to learn about the search facility of the board.

Everything has stopped. Uni has been real hectic these past few weeks, and will continue to do so. I may have a look at it over the easter break - not entirely sure if I'll have time.

http://www.codeproject.org/ should give you a good start. If you're interested, I made XPlode with WTL, rather than MFC, so check the section on WTL (it's down the bottom on the sidebar) if you're interested. WTL gives a lot of the UI functionality of MFC, but without the need of the MFC library.

Agreed. I will, however, suggest one thing to CuBie... Don't start too many projects - they'll never get completed

Heh... this is starting to look vaguely familiar...

Err, just so you know, my post was how to wait for a program to finish executing.

I do a ShellExecuteEx(), and WaitForSingleObject() on the process handle. Of course, I know this works with XPlode.... but that's in C++. Whether they work inn VB is another matter... Good luck

All the file operation commands need the full destination path. This means the target has to be '%SYSTEMDRIVE%\finish.bat'.

Looks like I need to start talking to ppl at MS...

Just a quick note... I've added something to 1.0.6 for seeing whether plugins work. Nothing more, nothing less, so if you're using 1.0.5 and it works, no need to upgrade. Anyone wishing to test it with SP2, it will need to be run with /testrun:on on the commandline. This will not open the XML or run anything, all it does is see whether it can find the plugins. URL: http://xplode.voidfx.com/downloads/XPlode-1.0.6.zip Post all results here.

You can do the command prompt thing via the registry. For things like winrar, with icons and submenus, you will need to write an explorer shell extension dll. Look at MSDN for the latter, I'm sure somehwere on MSFN there's a way to do the command prompt thing via registry.

Oh, duuh. *thwacks himself on the head* The target has to include the filename as well. Seems like I need some proper docs, eh?

Hmmm. Curious. It doesn't seem to be sticking the name of the file on the end of the target path. Quite weird, I'll look into it later tonight.

I wouldn't say a "little" busy. For next week, I need to: design a 3-wheeled car spaceframe chassis figure out and write up a report on vibration isolation do an assignment on under, over, and critically damped motion do an electrical quiz on bjt's, mosfet's and amplifiers and a whole lot of other stuff that I don't remember right now It's gonna be a while folks

Don't know what, if any, dependencies XPlode has on mui or oobe. I don't think there should be any, but you never know. As far as I can tell, it's only dependent on GDI+, and the standard windows program dependencies. *gives a baffled look* Oh, and us aussies r0x0r :afro: :punk: :excited:

It can be run. Or at least, it does on my system. You should use %SYSTEMROOT%\regedit.exe for the regedit entry.

Have you tried adding a /log:... to the winnt.sif line?

Possibly. Not entirely sure. I'd need to test, and that could be days away.