[wix-devs] Burn support for WM_SETTINGSCHANGED to refresh environment variables

[Sean Farrow]

That all makes sense.
Will work on this at the start of next week, once this new PC is fully up and working.
Cheers
Sean.
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Mensching <rob at firegiant.com> 
Sent: 12 April 2019 17:24
To: WiX Toolset Developer Mailing List <wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org>
Cc: Sean Farrow <sean.farrow at seanfarrow.co.uk>
Subject: RE: Burn support for WM_SETTINGSCHANGED to refresh environment variables

1. It has to be added to the engine (stub) since that is the process starting the ExePackage processes. Fortunately, there is already a message loop in the engine for handling shutdown messages.

2. It might be nice to add to the native BA but I'm not sure how useful that would be in practice since the native BA wouldn't be able to do anything with it.

3. Managed BA doesn't own the message loop so it isn't "in the loop" (ha, ha) to handle WM_SETTINGSCHANGED.

To get started, add an "EnvRefresh()" function (or better name) to a new envutil.cpp in https://github.com/wixtoolset/dutil. I expect that will be the hardest part. Then add the WM_SETTINGSCHANGED switch case to the message handling in the stub and call the new function.

That _should_ do it.

Regards,

  Rob Mensching
  CEO
  FireGiant
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Sent: Friday, April 12, 2019 5:16 AM
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Cc: Sean Farrow <sean.farrow at seanfarrow.co.uk>
Subject: [wix-devs] Burn support for WM_SETTINGSCHANGED to refresh environment variables

Hi,

Just following up to start the design discussion for this feature as requested.
Do we want to add this to both the managed and unmanaged bootstrappers?
Or, can we get away with just adding it to the stub?
Cheers
Sean.
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