12840 - XPInstall Progress dialog can show no text in dialog before installing

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: Installer: XPInstall Engine, defect, P3)

Description

[Jimmy Lee]

Build: 8/27/99 SeaMonkey build

This situation arose because I was trying to trigger a jar file from Samir's
machine while that same machine was preparing a build.  Essentially, all I did
was trigger a jar file.

RESULT:
The XPInstall Progress dialog appears.  No text appears in the text fields.
This state can exist for over one minute.  Eventually, text will appear as the
installation commences.

EXPECTED RESULT:
We can put some text in the dialog like "Waiting..." or something to convey that
there is something happening.  Initially, I actually thought there was a
problem, and it took me quite awhile to determine that it was likely a busy
server after discussing the matter with Samir.

Comment 1

[Cathleen]

this is another weird dialog problem, which no longer exists in today's build.

Jimmy can you verify?

Comment 2

[Jimmy Lee]

I think this problem has more to do with a busy server.  Within the same
session, I had up to 6-10 different progress dialogs triggering the same jar
file.  Ccing Samir if he has anything to add.  He said his machine was making
lots of noise when I was conducting this test.

Comment 3

[Samir Gehani]

The time period in question was between the triggering of the JAR -- causing a
HTTP request -- and before the server has responded about the existence of the
JAR to be served.

Under normal circumstances this time period is negligible. One could speculate
that even for otherwise heavily loaded servers the initial response time will
remain negligible since it is merely an initial HTTP response -- not the actual
file contents being streamed. IMHO, this may be a valid concern for clients
accessing heavily loaded servers and/or "geographically sparse" servers.

Comment 4

[Cathleen]

Sounds like this is a generic dialog problem, rather than just XPInstall not
display text in dialogs when server response is slow.

Dan, do you have anything to add?  Our new sets of XUL dialogs probably won't
help to resolve this.

Comment 5

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Actually the new dialogs will. We currently spit download progress up to the
dialog, but we don't put up some text indicating we're going to download first.
We will in the new dialogs, it wont just be blank.

Comment 6

[Cathleen]

wait and see what happens when Dan gets the new UI dialogs integrated.

Comment 7

[Cathleen]

reassign to Dan.  will get taken cared of once new UI gets rolled in.  (monday
10/4 meeting)

Comment 8

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

now dbragg is putting in the new UI

Comment 9

[dbragg]

This should be fixed with the JS_PushArguments since the dialog shouldn't even
appear if the initial setup text isn't ready.
Accepting.

Comment 10

[dbragg]

The new UI is in.  Needs some more pretty-ing up and the skin fixes but the
dialog is in.  (There's a separate bug on the skin fixes which I will attack
forthrightly.)

Comment 11

[leger]

Bulk move of XPInstall (component to be deleted) bugs to Installer: XPInstall
Engine

Comment 12

[Jimmy Lee]

Build 1999-12-10-09-M12(WIN), 1999-12-10-08-M12(MAC), 1999-12-10-08-M12(LINUX)

I don't see the problem any more.