mritter

As you probably could tell, I took some time off from programming. I needed a break; was getting burned out. And with all the holidays and family stuff, even busier. I will be starting back up this weekend. I already have some code updates sitting here. My to do list is still long as ever. At least there hasn't been any bugs in 5.6 that needed immediate attention. A little advice to all the single guys out there: do NOT date a stripper!!! No matter how good it sounds, it's not all it's cracked up to be. It starts out great at first, but goes down hill quick! Just some friendly advice.....

If you use Forced, then no. There is no way to inter-mix Forced and GCond.

Something quick, do you have Administrator rights to make the reg entries?

@kelaniz: You can't put %sleep% 20 like you have in CMD3. Must be broken up: CMD3: %programfiles%\....whatever....\winrar.exe CMD4: %sleep% 20 CMD5: blah blah OSLanguage is being pulled from Win32_OperatingSystem. What OS and language (and country) are you using?

Go to installer.js, line 29, and change dialogLeft:25;dialogTop:25; to whatever you want.

There should be no way that you would be editting your config and the timer ran out and started the installation process. Not possible. As soon as you click ANYWHERE, or use a hotkey, the timer stops. Unless you were editting it externally/manually.

Sent you a message on how to do it.

If you want the window to open somewhere else, I could add some gadgets to allow you to enter your own x,y coordinates. Right now it opens at 25x25.

RunOnceEx hasn't been used since WPI 4.3.8. I moved away from that to have total control of the install process. If you don't like the look of it, edit the .css file and change it. The main thing is that you cannot set WPIPATH or CDROM in an external script and expect them to work. They are set internally by WPI. WPIPATH was created in 5.0 or 5.1, I believe.

@MitsuMan: Miscellaneous tab was removed. Entries were either eliminated or moved to other tabs. Audio in main WPI window was removed like 2 versions ago.

The "Pro" version of WPI I am working has a feature that quickly opens the main window, then shows a dialog box of what it is doing: rendering menus, rendering toolbar, rendering checkboxes, etc. So you can see what is going on. It may port over to the current, but, maybe not.

You have to specify the full path for the options and config files. ....wpi.hta options=c:\path\path\options.js and so on.

It's not a fix, it's a work-around. The bug deals with Select All and Select None. I can't figure it out. When starting WPI and hit install, all works fine. But if select All or None, then pick a few files, they don't get "selected" for some reason. They show up in the list, but they get messed up when extracting them. It only happens if "Install by category" is selected. I haven't had much time to work on it, but will get fixed. Probably something simple/stupid I am overlooking.

There is a small bug in the installer code dealing with Install By Category. It used to work for me; I changed something; now it does not work. For the life of me I can not figure it out. All my testing code has the entries in the proper order, but then they get mesed up or dropped completely. Until I figure it out, replace your 5.6 WPIScripts\installer.js file with the attached one. It will also be replaced in the full archive file.

That might have been due to a bug that I took care of last week. It wasn't reading the data from the gadgets in the proper order. WPI 5.6 will be released this Sunday. Let me know if it is taken care of.

WPI will never have stats related to burning a cd/dvd. WPI will never have built-in iso burning capability. That is not what WPI is about. Make a huge config list, but don't burn every program to the cd. It will just show an X for error. No big deal. Or copy your config and cut out what is not needed for each custom install and give it a name. Or use multiple Configuration names; that is what I do. What you do with your cd/dvd is up to you. There is an unlimited number of variations WPI could create. Only you know what you want to do.

This has been brought up a few times recently. I will have to do some research into this. After a quick test, Force was overridden by Cond. But Force overrode GCond. Cond over Force. Force over GCond.

To show a link to a web site in the tool tips, you only have to change 1 thing: In the Options wizard -> Interface -> Tool tip style customization: Put a 3 in the 4th from last position. Then in your item's Description just add the link code: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 final step of installation. <A href='http://www.wpiw.net' target='_blank'>Home Page</A> Be sure to include the target='_blank' so it opens in a new window.

I am taking notes on your ideas. Keep them coming. I didn't write the tooltip code, but I do like that idea. I may know of a way to do it. In what I am calling the "Pro" version of WPI, I have a counter of "selected/total" at the bottom on the main window, and in the installer "current/total" counting up. And a count-up timer. Nout sure what will become of it; the grid is still in limbo. Haven't done much with it, but I now know how to get around the problem. Have some new features Lawrenca wrote in the Config wizard done. The Config wizard also now adjusts to your screen width to get maximum real-estate used. More Config wizard short cuts to come.

I made some updates to the Clone entry. It was a problem with SortWithinCats being turned on. Should be cured now.

It's not a virus or spyware or an app doing it. In the Options wizard, Tools tab, there is a checkbox to restart the computer when install is done. The default is 30 seconds. Un-check it.

Errors like that aree almost always from a command missing a quote, or a quote without the leading backslash, \" or \', or a closing parenthesis ) missing. Check your config file. It is not a bug in WPI; the other 10,000 users don't get those error messages.

WPI has a very small footprint, it is mshta.exe that is the memory hog. Typical Microsoft bloatware. There is nothing WPI can do or needs to do to free up memory.

My first thought is: does the x64 Window's have the RegEdit file in the same place and name as x86 systems? Do your program installs works? If so then it has to due with the RegEdit path.

i will be adding a new grid to the config wizard. i should say maybe; some people like it, some don't. this will allow sorting by either install order, category, or name. i will then look into merging in lawrenca's filtering idea to narrow-down what is displayed. the next version may have some of that built-in; will know in a few weeks; i am a beta-tester/bug finder for them. i have a lot of new ideas for the config wizard, mainly from lawrenca, that will make editting your config much easier. keep an eye out for v5.6.