Closed Bug 5578 Opened 26 years ago Closed 20 years ago

[feature] GetFolder: "User Pick"

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: Installer: XPInstall Engine, defect, P2)

Product:
Core Graveyard
Component:
Installer: XPInstall Engine
Platform:
x86
Windows NT
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX
Milestone:
Future

People

(Reporter: jimmykenlee, Assigned: dveditz)

References

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URL
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Details

(Keywords: helpwanted)

Build: 4/9/99 Engineering build 1. Go to http://jimbob/jars and click on an8bitscript_userpick.jar f = Install.GetFolder("User Pick", "charset"); RESULT: Crash. EXPECTED RESULT: A folder named "charset" is created and populated with files as described from install script. There are some target folders that work fine.
Priority: P3 → P2
QA Contact: 4395 → 4138
Change QA Contact from Grace to Jimmy.
Severity: critical → major
Summary: GetFolder: Crash when using the target folder "User Pick" → GetFolder: Nothing added when using the target folder "User Pick"
Correction: This particular target folder does not crash, but the folder and components are not added. The log file shows that the jar is started, but there is no finalization. Summary is changed from Crash to Nothing added.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: M8
accepting. Waiting on the dom to be xpconnected so that we can proxy UI class across threads. Also, this is part of the UI tasks yet to be completed.
user pick support is not in yet, and it never really worked in 4.x either. setting target milestone to M15 (for B2)
*** Bug 7866 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Target Milestone: M8 → M15
Build 7/27/99 The jar file, http://jimbob/jars/a_getfolder_1_userpick.jar, installs one component using this target folder. When triggered, Win98, Macintosh, and Linux did not fail. However, WinNT crashes.
Blocks: 11020
Summary: GetFolder: Nothing added when using the target folder "User Pick" → [feature] GetFolder: Nothing added when using the target folder "User Pick"
Summary: [feature] GetFolder: Nothing added when using the target folder "User Pick" → [feature] GetFolder: "User Pick"
Bulk move of XPInstall (component to be deleted) bugs to Installer: XPInstall Engine
punt!
Target Milestone: M15 → M20
user pick is no longer supported.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
reopen this bug, and keep this bug for future release support.
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: INVALID → ---
reassign to me.
Assignee: dougt → cathleen
Status: REOPENED → NEW
cut feature putting on helpwanted
Keywords: helpwanted
Target Milestone: M20 → M30
Parcelling out Cathleen's bugs
Assignee: cathleen → dveditz
Changing fictional "M30" to reality
Target Milestone: M30 → Future
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Blocks: 187812
wontfix
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago → 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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