jfx:native - MSI installer change request

[Danno Ferrin]

I assume you are posting a bug to javafx-jira.kenai.com.  That is what will be needed to get it in the build.

On Oct 1, 2014, at 3:11 PM, Scott Lewis <scott.lewis at nsidc.org> wrote:

> Yes, a pass through would be just fine.  I don't think the order matters, if there's a way I could just pass in the "-ext WixUIExtension" parameter, that would suit our needs just fine :)
> 
> On 10/01/2014 04:10 PM, Danno Ferrin wrote:
>> Would a "pass through" of certian command line arguments work?
>> 
>> I'm not terribly familiar with WiX but does the order of the command line arguments (other than the relative order of the same command) matter?  i.e. if we insert a user supplied string at a single point would that get you as far as you need?
>> 
>> On Oct 1, 2014, at 3:04 PM, Scott Lewis <scott.lewis at nsidc.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> My apologies, I overlooked that this project has a JIRA tracker.  I'll file this request there.
>>> 
>>> Scott
>>> 
>>> On 10/01/2014 03:59 PM, Scott Lewis wrote:
>>>> When I was using the jfx:native maven goal to create an installer for
>>>> Windows using MSI, most of it works fine.  However, I wanted to
>>>> customize the dialogs that are shown during the installation process.  I
>>>> can get the configuration files OK, but the problem is that in order for
>>>> it to work completely, the WixUIExtension needs to be included in the
>>>> command line (using an "-ext WixUIExtension" option).
>>>> 
>>>> Unfortunately, there is no way to add this when running the installer.
>>>> The code (WinMsiBundler.java) hardcodes the WixUtilExtension, but that
>>>> is all.
>>>> 
>>>> Ideally, it would be nice to be able to specify any number of arbitrary
>>>> extensions at the command line, perhaps via some kind of flag like
>>>> -Dextension=WixUIExtension, which then gets passed into the
>>>> WinMsiBundler to create more "-ext XYZExtension" options).  But even
>>>> just having the UI extension hardcoded inthere would get it to work.
>>>> 
>>>> I can probably just do the change locally and install a custom version
>>>> of the JFX stuff in my repository, but I think it would be a worthwhile
>>>> change to the repo overall.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> 
>>>> Scott Lewis