Hello everyone,
Lately I was continuing working on my setup_improvements branch:
https://github.com/HBelusca/reactos/commits/setup_improvements
(whose main purpose, I recall, is to share a maximum of installation code
between our working 1st-stage text-mode usetup and our 1st-stage GUI-mode
reactos.exe setup that needs to be implemented).
The last results of this is that I am now able to install ReactOS files to a
user-provided directory using the GUI-mode setup!
As Im developing under Windows I tested the file-copying part of the
installer (which is, at the time of writing, the latest part of installation
code I has been able to share between the two installers) on Windows.
You can see the demo here: https://i.imgur.com/xF97hv1.gifv
The animated gif also demonstrates the capability of the installer to halt
file copying if the user pops the installation-cancel confirmation dialog
out; file-copying is resumed when the user does not want to cancel the
installation, but it is stopped when the user really cancels the
installation.
And of course, the file-copying status is displayed with an animated
progress-bar.
I have worked out a bit the wizard transitions, but some work remains to be
done, especially for the partitioning step (currently Im hardcoding in the
GUI installer the disk & partition where I want the copy to take place).
One can note in the animation that the preparation of the list of files to
be copied seems to take a while: indeed, the shared installation code works
exclusively with NT paths. However, when this shared code is used in the
win32 GUI-mode installer, this code calls inside setupapi.dll functions to
manage the installation file queue (in usetup on the contrary, it uses
instead a file queue implementation that works directly with NT paths). As a
consequence, I need to convert the NT paths back to Win32 ones before
feeding them into the setupapi functions, and this is not trivial. I want to
improve this conversion by caching some of the computed results.
Enjoy!
Best regards,
Hermès
P.S.: Please dont put that on Twitter since this is under heavy
work-in-progress and this demo hasnt been done under ReactOS at all.
Hi all!
If we follow our usual schedule, the December Status Meeting would be
today. With such a late announcement and many people still on holidays,
I suggest postponing it to next Thursday, January 4, 2018. Time will be
19:00 UTC as always.
I already asked on #reactos-dev and got some approvals, so consider this
the official meeting invitation :)
This also gives you one week from now for agenda proposals.
Additionally, we have got some new contributors in the recent months.
If you think you should join the meeting or know somebody who should
join, please let me know in advance.
See you all next year!
Colin