[wix-devs] WiX v4 Opportunity: New WixBA UI
Phill Hogland
phill.hogland at rimage.com
Tue Jul 12 06:54:06 PDT 2016
Thanks for the details.
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From: wix-devs <wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> on behalf of Sean Hall <r.sean.hall at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2016 8:53:14 AM
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Subject: Re: [wix-devs] WiX v4 Opportunity: New WixBA UI
I get this issue intermittently on wix3 and wix4. I can always get it
working by using clean and then building again. It hasn't happened often
enough for me to look into it.
On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 8:21 AM, Phill Hogland <phill.hogland at rimage.com>
wrote:
> OK. Thanks for the comments.
>
>
> Ironically I focused over the weekend on creating a wx4 development
> environment and all was going well. Yesterday I decided to focus on
> setting up a similar folder tree to build wix3 and submit a PR for a bug I
> had reported just before I left for a trip. which also went fine. But now
> my wix4 builds fail:
>
>
> Target _ProcessXsdToDocuments:
> Skipping target "_ProcessXsdToDocuments" because all output
> files are up-to-date with respect to the input files.
> Target _ProcessDocuments:
>
> "D:\Development\Git\wix4Dev\wix4\build\debug\x86\tildetorelative.exe"
> "D:\Development\Git\wix4Dev\wix4\build\obj\debug\x86\chm\documents\\"
> "D:\Development\Git\wix4Dev\wix4\build\obj\debug\x86\chm\intermediate\\"
>
> "D:\Development\Git\wix4Dev\wix4\build\debug\x86\doccompiler.exe"
> "D:\Development\Git\wix4Dev\wix4\build\obj\debug\x86\chm\intermediate\\"
> "D:\Development\Git\wix4Dev\wix4\build\obj\debug\x86\chm\out\\" "layouts"
> -appendmdtoc
> "D:\Development\Git\wix4Dev\wix4\build\obj\debug\x86\chm\intermediate\\
> index.html.md" -ignore
> "D:\Development\Git\wix4Dev\wix4\build\obj\debug\x86\chm\intermediate\content\\"
> -ignore
> "D:\Development\Git\wix4Dev\wix4\build\obj\debug\x86\chm\out\content\\"
> -ignorexsdsimpletypeintoc -htmlhelp
> "D:\Development\Git\wix4Dev\wix4\build\obj\debug\x86\chm\wix.hhp"
> Error in document: bundle\index.html cannot find matching
> document for metadata: after=/wixui/
>
> Unhandled Exception: System.ArgumentException: Error in
> document: bundle\index.html cannot find matching document for metadata:
> after=/wixui/
> at
> WixBuild.Tools.DocCompiler.DocCompiler.OrderIndexedDocuments(List`1
> indexedDocs) in
> D:\Development\Git\wix4Dev\wix4\tools\src\DocCompiler\DocCompiler.cs:line
> 250
> at
> WixBuild.Tools.DocCompiler.DocCompiler.Run(CommandLine commandLine) in
> D:\Development\Git\wix4Dev\wix4\tools\src\DocCompiler\DocCompiler.cs:line
> 107
> at WixBuild.Tools.DocCompiler.DocCompiler.Main(String[]
> args) in
> D:\Development\Git\wix4Dev\wix4\tools\src\DocCompiler\DocCompiler.cs:line 44
>
> D:\Development\Git\wix4Dev\wix4\tools\WixBuild.helpproj.targets(74,5):
> error MSB3073: The command
> ""D:\Development\Git\wix4Dev\wix4\build\debug\x86\doccompiler.exe"
> "D:\Development\Git\wix4Dev\wix4\build\obj\debug\x86\chm\intermediate\\"
> "D:\Development\Git\wix4Dev\wix4\build\obj\debug\x86\chm\out\\" "layouts"
> -appendmdtoc
> "D:\Development\Git\wix4Dev\wix4\build\obj\debug\x86\chm\intermediate\\
> index.html.md" -ignore
> "D:\Development\Git\wix4Dev\wix4\build\obj\debug\x86\chm\intermediate\content\\"
> -ignore
> "D:\Development\Git\wix4Dev\wix4\build\obj\debug\x86\chm\out\content\\"
> -ignorexsdsimpletypeintoc -htmlhelp
> "D:\Development\Git\wix4Dev\wix4\build\obj\debug\x86\chm\wix.hhp"" exited
> with code -532462766.
> Done building target "_ProcessDocuments" in project
> "chm.helpproj" -- FAILED.
>
>
> I did two things that may of led to this.
>
> 1) I started to try and figure out how to do strong name signing so I can
> run the setup on another test VM rather than the dev system. (I hate
> running test code on my dev system!). But I did not get the sn steps to
> work so I set that issue aside for the moment and plan to work on it
> later. However I don't know if I did something to cause this problem. I
> ran the 'OneTime...Init' script again and tried the build but it still
> failed.
>
>
> 2) I also recalled that yesterday while trying to settle on my git
> workflow I did a fetch upstream followed by a merge to my branch. I had
> learned how to get my wix3 branch up to date with upstream and just did it
> on wix4 also, but that may have been a mistake. So I am digging on this,
> but I am also expecting an incoming tide of boss-tasks later today so I may
> have to set these issues aside for a bit.
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Phill
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: wix-devs <wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> on behalf of Rob
> Mensching <rob at firegiant.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2016 1:37:36 AM
> To: WiX Toolset Developer Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [wix-devs] WiX v4 Opportunity: New WixBA UI
>
> It would be ideal to target NETFX v4.0 since that is what the code depends
> on today. I think the Bundle should install NETFX 4.6.1 if it can't find
> any NETFX 4.x since that is latest supported NETFX. However, should be
> pretty rare that no NETFX v4.x is on a dev box.
>
> However, we definitely must support Win7+. I think we should support
> Vista+ unless there really is a good reason we can't.
>
> All good things to toss in a WIP if you wanted to start writing one up...
> <smile/>
>
> Regards,
>
> Rob Mensching
> CEO
> FireGiant
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-devs [mailto:wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf
> Of Phill Hogland
> Sent: Saturday, July 9, 2016 4:33 PM
> To: WiX Toolset Developer Mailing List <wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> Subject: Re: [wix-devs] WiX v4 Opportunity: New WixBA UI
>
> Greetings;
>
>
> I did a little work on a face lift for WixBA v4 using the contoso screen
> shot that Rob linked as a guide. I am interested in feedback as to whether
> this is the general direction that you were thinking of going in. I am
> sure that there is a need for more refactoring and checking for code style
> variants, but I wanted to share what I have done so far and maybe that will
> help in defining a wip or indicating what should be changed. Maybe brian
> wants to jump in an implement some of his ideas also. I have not looked at
> control focus, tab order, or related issues yet. Just like the old WixBA
> (but not my mba) for some reason I have to click a button to get the focus
> and then click it to activate it. Annoying, and I know I tracked that issue
> down in my mba once before, but I did not try to find that solution just
> yet.
>
>
> The branch is here:
>
> https://github.com/phillHgl/wix4/tree/WixBAFacelift
>
>
> I did basic testing of Install, repair, and uninstall phases, but I need
> to pound on it harder before I was going to do a pull request. I also need
> to figure out how to do a private release build so that I can utilize other
> machines when testing.
>
>
> I have several areas of questions, for which I added notes, but I am a bit
> tired now so think I will go over that later. I started to use the
> System.Window.Shell Chrome WPF class but I backed that out and opted to
> create the window chrome directly. I understood that there is a desire to
> match Win 10 behavior, for which the Chrome clase might be more ideal, but
> pre-Win 8 and pre-Net45 are not supported as I understood the
> documentation. I was not sure what WixV4 plans to target in this regard so
> I backed the Chrome class out for now. I also did not implement the window
> min/max buttons in the chrome yet, and the window is not user resizable.
> We did not support that in the past and to support them will introsuce some
> other challenges, so I wanted to be clear on what the expectations are
> before going down that path. Since leveraged several styles from my mba I
> also added some support for high contrast themes and accessibility.
>
>
> Do you know of a functional "win 10" style setup that I can download and
> run on a test box, so that I can get a better idea of the desired behavior?
>
>
> Thanks for any feedback.
>
> Phill
>
>
> ________________________________
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> brian.e.drennan at outlook.com <brian.e.drennan at outlook.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 10:54:15 PM
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> Subject: Re: [wix-devs] WiX v4 Opportunity: New WixBA UI
>
>
>
> My school load will go down this week. Do you have any design docs
> together yet?
>
>
> I've never looked at the bundle source, but I imagine it's MVVM, so the
> work consists mostly of redesigning the layout and changing some view
> models?
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 2:12 PM -0400, "Phill Hogland" <
> phill.hogland at rimage.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> In general, I am interested, and I hope that my current work workload will
> wind down, letting me contribute more to wix.
>
> I modeled my original mba on the metro grid view similar to the v3.8
> WixBA, but that made supporting different locals and adding 'options'
> difficult. Over time I have evolved to a look that is more similar to the
> Contoso screen shots at the link you shared. I did this by reworking the
> View(s) so I think that your proposed rewrite could be done on top of the
> existing WixBA project structure. Since I wanted to use a single mba for
> multiple bundles I came up with a scheme to sub-class the Model for each
> (or a group of similar) bundles and use the BundleTag to switch different
> Models and View(s) in place. My product manager wanted a 'mobile' phone
> look that was wizard less and scrolls down to less important advanced
> options, if any.
>
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: wix-devs <wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> on behalf of Rob
> Mensching <rob at firegiant.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 12:06:24 PM
> To: wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org
> Subject: [wix-devs] WiX v4 Opportunity: New WixBA UI
>
> I want to throw this idea out for someone interested in doing some work in
> WiX v4. Hopefully, someone will be interested in picking it up. If so, I'll
> offer to write the WIP.
>
> The WixBA today is very *different*. That was a conscious decision to
> demonstrate how much more you can do with UI in Bundles. Some people
> thought the UI was cool, some people never liked it. That was okay.
>
> However today, the UI is getting "old". It needs a refresh and WiX v4 is a
> great place to put it.
>
> So, I'd like to propose that we make the WiX v4.0 WixBA UI look like the
> new Appx installer UI:
> https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/app-installer/9nblggh4nns1
>
> There are a lot of random reasons why I think this is a good idea. It's a
> clean UI that is not a wizard. We'll get back to something simple. Also,
> it'll be associated with "future of installation UI" looking just like what
> is available in Windows 10. Plus, it should be *really* easy to implement
> in WPF. <smile/>
>
> Hopefully someone (or even a couple people) would be interested in picking
> this project up.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Rob Mensching
> CEO
> FireGiant
> _______________________________________________________________
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