[wpkg-users] windows 7 compatibility

[Justin Brinegar]

Hi,

We wanted our users to have a status/information window so that they 
wouldn't freak out when they saw their computers 'thinking hard' during 
a WPKG run.

Our solution: Create an execute=always package with an extremely high 
priority that launches a 'display' program impersonating the logged on 
user. CreateProcessAsUser.exe launches a homebrew app that has our logo 
in it and a simple text box that is updated from a flatfile on disk.  
Packages modify the flatfile ('Installing (Name) (version)...'), which 
updates the display.  This lets custom status information be displayed 
to the user.  This was never used in production, so I can't attest to 
how well it works - this was just a proof of concept and was intentioned 
to be a solution until our homebrew display program could be rewritten.

I also experimented with making notification area balloon tips.  I'm not 
sure that would help you if you are running at shutdown though.

It would be awesome if WPKG could write to the action/notification area 
on Windows 7 by default...that would suffice for most usages I think.

Justin

On 3/25/2010 7:36 AM, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Am 25.03.2010 12:34, Daniel Dehennin wrote:
>> Tomasz Chmielewski<mangoo at wpkg.org>  writes:
>>
>>>> I'm using 1.3.14 on win7 with run at shutdown and the WPKG client 
>>>> window
>>>> is not displayed (it is on winXP).
>>>
>>> As per what Rainer mentioned, the message is about a window opened by
>>> the program installer, not WPKG Client.
>>
>> Ok, any idea how to show the WPKG client window, I need it to try to
>> avoid users holding the power button 4s because it's not fast enought?
>
> Right now it's not possible, due to completely redesigned security 
> model in Vista and Windows 7.
>
> Patches welcome ;)
>