Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [fireball] 33662: - msiexec is GUI app, not CUI.

[Steven Edwards]

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 1:55 PM,  <fireball(a)svn.reactos.org> wrote:
>   - msiexec is GUI app, not CUI. 
Is this a Wine bug then? It has it listed as a console based
application. When you run msiexec directly on Windows I know it does
not start a console window so I guess this would imply it is a GUI
with a hidden window right?

-- 
Steven Edwards

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo

[ShadowFlare]

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Steven Edwards <winehacker(a)gmail.com>
wrote:

>   On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 1:55 PM, 
> <fireball(a)svn.reactos.org> wrote:
> >   - msiexec is GUI app, not CUI. 
>  Is this a Wine bug then? It has it listed as a console based
>  application. When you run msiexec directly on Windows I know it does
>  not start a console window so I guess this would imply it is a GUI
>  with a hidden window right?
>  
Just another Wine-ism.  The real rundll32 and regsvr32 are not console apps
either, and Wine has them as console apps.  Also, a "GUI" app doesn't need
to really have any window at all, hidden or not. ;)  Regsvr32 is one example
of a GUI app that does not create any windows.  On the other hand, a GUI app
can still use stdin, stdout, and stderr when they are valid, for use with
redirection or pipes.

-ShadowFlare

[Aleksey Bragin]

A simple examination of Windows' msiexec.exe with any PE-analyzer out  
there reveals that the type is set to Win32 GUI (and not Win32 CUI).
And if you try to start msiexec.exe in Windows, without any  
parameters/keys, you'll get a GUI messagebox with possible key  
combinations, etc. Definately not a console with help.

I guess Wine would need this changed too.


WBR,
Aleksey Bragin.

On May 24, 2008, at 4:07 AM, Steven Edwards wrote:

>   On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 1:55 PM, 
> <fireball(a)svn.reactos.org> wrote:
> >   - msiexec is GUI app, not CUI. 
>  Is this a Wine bug then? It has it listed as a console based
>  application. When you run msiexec directly on Windows I know it does
>  not start a console window so I guess this would imply it is a GUI
>  with a hidden window right?
>
>  -- 
>  Steven Edwards