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post Jun 20 2007, 12:22 AM
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I know some of the requests filed last time didn't get put in this one. don't worry though they are still being worked on.

So keep the ideas comin...
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post Jun 27 2007, 06:15 AM
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More then six commandlines would be very nice.
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post Jun 27 2007, 06:20 AM
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That horse has been beat to DEATH sp00f!!!

But I did decide to finally give into everyones requests and add 4 more...
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post Jun 29 2007, 09:06 PM
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post Jun 30 2007, 02:40 PM
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Can you include an option so a swtichless installer can be executed from WPI?
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post Jun 30 2007, 06:57 PM
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It is already and option you just add the installer with no switches tongue.gif
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post Jun 30 2007, 08:27 PM
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Great!
Okay, then how about to include more switches? For example for some programs WPI does not find a switch but it can be found here http://www.appdeploy.com or here http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=12657. It would be cool if you could manually include them.
I'm also thinking if it is possible to add an option to your program so it would be able to record when program is being manually installed and then save the log. So all you have to do it to attach the log file and it will install the program in the same way you installed it. This will allow for ealisy configurable setup. Kind of like Almeza multiset. But problem with this program is that when you install a program there is not log file, so after you close the program you cannot open it again and run an installation of a particular program.

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post Jun 30 2007, 10:14 PM
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Ummm you really need to do some reading in the manual you just click on the commandline and enter your switches with your keyboard.
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post Jul 9 2007, 11:18 AM
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strangely can't find this anywhere so i'll make it a feature request:Option to fill in useraccounts (with their avatar)/give computername/give workgroup name (for the network).That would be great!...


This would be cool. Kindalike OOBE stuff, I disabled OOBE because it runs at the wrong moment..if you could include stuff like this with the WPIinstall that would be great newwink.gif

-computername
-computerdescription
-workgroup
-timezone
-useraccounts..

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post Jul 10 2007, 07:01 AM
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- User to set somekind of ETA in configuration per app.
- Add backgound/wallpaper during installer.. (i hate that black schreen tongue.gif )

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post Jul 11 2007, 11:31 AM
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QUOTE (HJW @ Jul 10 2007, 06:01 AM) *
- User to set somekind of ETA in configuration per app.
- Add backgound/wallpaper during installer.. (i hate that black schreen tongue.gif )


Oooh an ETA would be sweet! So we could have a time remaining on the installer window, that would be awesome!
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post Jul 25 2007, 08:55 PM
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QUOTE (HJW @ Jul 10 2007, 03:01 PM) *
- User to set somekind of ETA in configuration per app.
- Add backgound/wallpaper during installer.. (i hate that black schreen tongue.gif )

Your not the only one.
In XP there was an addon for this.
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post Jul 25 2007, 09:05 PM
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I am working on a hacked up method to call WPI after the desktop loads I have some ideas..

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- User to set somekind of ETA in configuration per app.
<--- Thats ALOT of recoding there. Not likely to happen anytime soon.
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post Jul 30 2007, 03:51 PM
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QUOTE (Kelsenellenelvian @ Jul 26 2007, 05:05 AM) *
I am working on a hacked up method to call WPI after the desktop loads I have some ideas..

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- User to set somekind of ETA in configuration per app.
<--- Thats ALOT of recoding there. Not likely to happen anytime soon.


Ok, fair enough, however what do you think of a custom background/splash for behind the installer (@desktopwidth en @desktopheight)?
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post Aug 1 2007, 06:35 PM
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QUOTE (HJW @ Jul 30 2007, 11:51 PM) *
QUOTE (Kelsenellenelvian @ Jul 26 2007, 05:05 AM) *
I am working on a hacked up method to call WPI after the desktop loads I have some ideas..

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- User to set somekind of ETA in configuration per app.
<--- Thats ALOT of recoding there. Not likely to happen anytime soon.


Ok, fair enough, however what do you think of a custom background/splash for behind the installer (@desktopwidth en @desktopheight)?

That would be nice.
In XP i had this fixed, but not in Vista
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post Aug 17 2007, 02:49 AM
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I was woundering about the sound options. I see that the sound plays when the installations begin, can an option be added to the audio options page that allows for the sound to start when WPI starts?

Also, I'd like to see an option in the audio options pane for volume control. I think a slider bar or just plain old text box where you could choose a percentage would be great. So far, WPI starts WM with the volume at 100%, I would like to be able to dictate that the volume is 30% (for example) when WPI starts WM.

Thanks!

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post Aug 22 2007, 03:12 PM
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Fully qualified pathnames for images would be nice.
e.g. %ROOT%\Apps\Nero\wpi_image.png

My config.js is created by a batch-file which searches in the application-folder for wpi_image and sets picf[pn] to it.
e.g. picf[pn]=['%ROOT%\\Anwendungen\\Multimedia\\Codec - DivX Pro 6.6.1\\wpi_image.png'];

For this purpose I created a litte hack in program.js
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function WriteBackPrograms(programs)
{
    position="program.js";
    whatfunc="WriteBackPrograms()";

    for (var i=0; i<programs.length; i++)
    {
        if (IndentText)
            textindent ='    ';
        else
            textindent ='';

        if (programs[i].picf != null)
        {
            if (programs[i].textl != "Top")
            {
                  if (programs[i].textl != "Bottom")
                {
                    pwidth=programs[i].picw;
                    pheight=programs[i].pich;
                    textloc=programs[i].textl;
                    desc[i+1]=imagelocationlr + programs[i].picf + imagepart2lr + pwidth  + imagepart3lr + pheight + imagepart4lr + textloc + imagepart5lr + textindent + programs[i].desc;
                }
            }

            if (programs[i].textl != "Left")
            {
                  if (programs[i].textl != "Right")
                {
                       if (programs[i].textl != "Bottom")
                    {
                        pwidth=programs[i].picw;
                        pheight=programs[i].pich;
                        textloc=programs[i].textl;
                        desc[i+1]=textindent + programs[i].desc + imagepart1t + imagelocationtb + programs[i].picf + imagepart2tb + pwidth  + imagepart3tb + pheight + imagepart4tb;
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        pwidth=programs[i].picw;
                        pheight=programs[i].pich;
                        textloc=programs[i].textl;
                        desc[i+1]=imagelocationtb + programs[i].picf + imagepart2tb + pwidth  + imagepart3tb + pheight + imagepart4tb  + imagepart1b + imageparteb + textindent + programs[i].desc;
                    }
                }
            }
            //check if an absolute path was set
            if (desc[i+1].match(/img src=".*\\.*"/g) != null) {
                //remove ./Graphics/
                desc[i+1]=desc[i+1].replace(/src=".\/Graphics\//gi, 'src="');
                //replace variables (e.g. %ROOT%)
                desc[i+1]=ReplacePath(desc[i+1].replace(/src="([^"]*)"/gi, 'src="$1"'));
                //get path to image
                path_to_image = desc[i+1].replace(/.*src="([^"]*)".*/i, "$1");
                //replace every "\" with "/"
                path_to_image = path_to_image.replace(/\\/g, '/');
                //build new description
                desc[i+1]=desc[i+1].replace(/src="[^"]*"/gi, 'src="file://' + path_to_image + '"');
            }
        }
        else
           desc[i+1]=textindent + programs[i].desc;

        prog[i+1]=programs[i].prog;
        ordr[i+1]=programs[i].ordr;
        ui