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Setup.exe new GUI "preview"
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: "Cygwin-Apps" <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 01:59:23 -0600
- Subject: Setup.exe new GUI "preview"
I figured before I went to bed tonight (er... this morning) I'd upload my latest
build and source of the work I'm doing on Setup.exe's GUI for people to check
out/comment on/pillorie/whatever. While not ready for public consumption, it
does download and install Cygwin packages from the web as one would hope, and is
largely feature-complete as far as the new GUI goes.
File links are here:
http://home.att.net/~g.r.vansickle/cygwin/setup/
Actual files are here:
http://home.att.net/~g.r.vansickle/cygwin/setup/setup.exe
http://home.att.net/~g.r.vansickle/cygwin/setup/setup-src.tar.bz2
So what's new and exciting here? Previously, setup.exe was a number of separate
dialog boxes presented in sequence. I've taken the bulk of those dialogs and
made them pages in a Wizard-style property sheet, which allows a number of
improvements:
- No more "hide-and-seek" where the dialogs end up at different places in the
z-order as you "next" through them, without resorting to "always on top".
- One line of code, and now we have a minimize box in the corner. A lifesaver
for those full Cygwin installs over a 56K modem if you ask me.
- Much of the page navigation logic is now handled by the property sheet instead
of the individual pages.
So let me know what you think,
--
Gary R. Van Sickle
Brewer. Patriot.