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From:	"Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To:	"Gary R. Van Sickle" <g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>,
	"Cygwin-Apps" <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Setup.exe new GUI "preview"
Date:	Tue, 18 Dec 2001 15:15:45 +1100
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This hung for me, at 99% of the last pacakge, in download only mode.

Can you post a diff to cygwin-patches?

Rob
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----- Original Message -----
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>
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 6:59 PM
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.
>
>

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