[wix-users] Custom Bootstrapper Application, command line usage - possible?

[Kaveesh Dashora]

Display is set based on the command line parameters. Providing a silent at
command line would mean a value of passive.

You can then work out your BA to display the UI or not.

On Jan 9, 2018 4:50 AM, "Jon Earle via wix-users" <
wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:

> Hey Jacob,
>
>
> How is the BootstrapperApplication.Command.Display being set?
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: wix-users <wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> on behalf of
> Hoover, Jacob via wix-users <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 8, 2018 4:51 PM
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> Cc: Hoover, Jacob
> Subject: Re: [wix-users] Custom Bootstrapper Application, command line
> usage - possible?
>
> Your BA has to handle it...
>
> BootstrapperApplication. Command.Display == Display.Passive ||
> BootstrapperApplication.Command.Display == Display.Full
>
> You can see how the Wix BA does this inside of WixBA.cs, in the Run method.
>
> I'm not certain, but you may also need to implement the parsing of args to
> handle setting variables as well (since WixStdBA has code in it to do so).
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf
> Of Edwin Castro via wix-users
> Sent: Monday, January 8, 2018 3:44 PM
> To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> Cc: Edwin Castro <egcastr at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [wix-users] Custom Bootstrapper Application, command line
> usage - possible?
>
> What do you mean by "We could run it when using the standard BA"?
>
> I use the standard BA as well and when I run it from the command line the
> GUI just pops up and the command line returns as expected for a Windows
> application. If I want to wait until the bootstrapper completes I need to
> execute it using start /wait.
>
> --
> Edwin G. Castro
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 1:39 PM, Jon Earle via wix-users <
> wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:
>
> > Hey folks,
> >
> >
> > I have concocted a custom bootstrapper application, using the WixWPF
> > framework (https://github.com/tpalacino/WixWPF), which is working
> > quite well.  The problem I am having, is running the installer via
> commandline.
> > We could run it when using the standard BA but, when I issue the same
> > commandline now, the GUI just pops up.
> >
> >
> > Commandline:
> >
> >
> > Client.exe /install /quiet /l install.log ADDLOCAL="myFeature"
> > INSTALLDIR="c:\client"
> >
> >
> > Is there anything I need to implement in the bootstrapper code to
> > enable commandline usage?
> >
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > Jon
> >
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