1995-era installshield woes - foreground window never appears

Marcus Meissner marcus at jet.franken.de
Mon Jan 20 00:37:43 CST 2003


On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 06:02:31PM -0800, Dan Kegel wrote:
> All the installshield stuff in the msvc4 installer
> seems to work -- except the Data Access Objects
> installer. When you run it, you get to the first
> screen with a big blue background, but the foreground
> window never shows up. It's probably there, but
> invisible, or something. Alt-tab doesn't help, and
> the blue background is full-screen, so you can't
> try moving it out of the way.   I have to alt-tab and ^C
> (why that works, I dunno) to get out.
> 
> Any suggestions?  I'm having trouble figuring out how
> to track this down; win32 gui problems aren't my forte.

Catch them in a desktop window for now:

Ciao, Marcus

Index: documentation/samples/config
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/wine/wine/documentation/samples/config,v
retrieving revision 1.37
diff -u -u -r1.37 config
--- documentation/samples/config	13 Dec 2002 02:26:18 -0000	1.37
+++ documentation/samples/config	20 Jan 2003 06:37:18 -0000
@@ -277,6 +277,20 @@
 ;"UseDnsComputerName" = "N"
 
 ;; sample AppDefaults entries
+
+; 3 InstallShield versions who like to put their full screen window in front,
+; without any chance to switch to another X11 application.
+; So just catch them in a desktop window.
+
+[AppDefaults\\_INS5576._MP\\x11drv]
+"Desktop" = "640x480"
+
+[AppDefaults\\_INS5176._MP\\x11drv]
+"Desktop" = "640x480"
+
+[AppDefaults\\_INS0466._MP\\x11drv]
+"Desktop" = "640x480"
+
 ;[AppDefaults\\iexplore.exe\\DllOverrides]
 ;"shlwapi" = "native"
 ;"rpcrt4" = "native"



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