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From: | "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net> |
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Subject: | Setup.exe new GUI "preview" |
Date: | Mon, 17 Dec 2001 01:59:23 -0600 |
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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.
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