81437 - Small square box after launching setup.exe should be resized

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(CCK Graveyard :: CCK-Installation, defect, P3)

Description

[blee]

To see this,
Extract cckinstaller.zip (URL above) and launch setup.exe.
Click Client Customization Kit button.

==> After a progress bar titled "Extracting ..." briefly shows up and goes away,
another small square box appears for a moment before Welcome to Netscape CCK 
dialog shows up. This square box is so small no content is visible except the 
truncated string ("Netsca...") at the top.

Comment 1

[Jon Granrose]

That's an installer issue.  I don't know if Kyle knows how to fix that.  cc;ing
ssu for any pointers.

Comment 2

[Sean Su]

I think I know what you are seeing.  I'm guessing that there was a string (maybe 
even more than one) that is missing from the config.ini that cck's installer 
uses.

So the problem now becomes to track down this missing string (if this is indeed 
the case).  I'm guessing that it's something along the lines of:

  [General]
  MSG_INIT_SETUP=Initializing Setup, please wait.

in the file: install.ini (generated from install.it).  This message is suppose 
to show up at startup of setup.exe, before the welcome dialog shows up.

But I'm just guessing that it's this string....

Comment 3

[bobj]

Added "nscckb1" to Status Whiteboard.

This is sort cosmetic, but since this is the user's first impression of the
product, it'd be nice if we could fix this for the Beta.

Comment 4

[bobj]

Do we have an older installer (maybe 6.0 CCK) that does not have this
problem?  If so, maybe we can compare the .ini files and to try and find
any missing strings.

Comment 5

[bobj]

In addtion to the zip installer, this is reproducible with the
2001-06-05-14 blob installer.

Comment 6

[Sean Su]

Found the problem.  The problem is that whoever is updating the CCK installer 
(setup.exe, setuprsc.dll, config.ini, install.ini, etc...) is not updating all 
the files that go along with the installer.

For this bug, config.ini is really old.  It is missing a [Strings] section.  
Since config.ini is not up to date, it makes me wonder if the other files are 
up to date...

Comment 7

[kysmith0 (gone)]

Currently the build process takes the config.ini file from 
ns/cck/cckcd and puts it into the cck installer. There is now a config.ini file 
delivered every time we run the seamonkey builds, should that one be put into 
the cck installer instead of the one in ns/cck/cckcd?

Also I question the license.txt and readme.txt files in the installer...they 
currently come from 
ns/cck/license and 
ns/cck/readme respectively. 

These 2 files are also now delivered every time we run the seamonkey builds. 
Should these files be put into the cck installer instead of the ones from the 
ns/cck tree? 

Comment 8

[Sean Su]

I don't know how the cck build process is suppose to work.  I didn't set 
it up.  However, wherever the setup.exe is coming from, all its support files 
need to come from the same place and same build as well.

Comment 9

[Sean Su]

a quick workaround would be to copy the [Strings] section from the good 
config.ini into the bad config.ini file.  That will take care of the problem for 
now.

Comment 10

[kysmith0 (gone)]

do you eman the strings section from the seamonkey config.ini that is delivered 
as part of the seamonkey builds?

Comment 11

[Shruti Vasudevan]

We should not be replacing the config.ini in ns/cck/cckcd with the config.ini 
from the seamonkey builds. The config.ini in ns/cck/cckcd is for the CCK 
installer. Similarly, license.txt and readme.txt files are CCK specific. None of 
these files must be replaced.

Comment 12

[Sean Su]

add the following to the end of the bad config.ini file:

  [Strings]
  ;*** LOCALIZE ME BABY ***
  Message Verifying Archives=Verifying integrity of archives, please wait...

This will fix this bug.

Comment 13

[kysmith0 (gone)]

Workaround checked into tree...thanks Sean!

Comment 14

[kysmith0 (gone)]

Checked blob installer, the workaround is good. 

Comment 15

[kysmith0 (gone)]

Verifying FIXED

Comment 16

[blee]

Still happens in 6/8 bld

Comment 17

[blee]

The blob installer link took me to the previous bld.
Fixed in 6/8 bld.

Comment 18

[blee]

Marking Verified.