A fresh install opens on a destination page (Program Files by default;
Change... browses, with Up and New folder), then a Ready page that shows
the folder before anything is written. An upgrade goes straight to the
Ready page with the installed copy's folder and can't move it; opening the
MSI again offers Repair or Remove. Cancel, finish, files-in-use and error
dialogs are authored too. Silent installs (/qn) show none of it.
The dialogs (installer-ui.wxs) are original, built from Windows Installer's
own controls and events, not the WixUI library, whose MS-RL licence is not
on the allowed list. package.ps1 builds both .wxs files.
The MSI records its folder as the App Paths "Path" value of effectcraft.exe
and reads it back with a registry search, so an upgrade, a repair or a
silent reinstall goes where the installed copy already is. A folder passed
on the command line (INSTALLFOLDER=...) still wins, and INSTALLFOLDER is
Secure so a folder chosen in the UI reaches the elevated install. Releases
before this change have no Path value; a later commit finds their folder
from the installed effectcraft.exe.
The MSI Icon id had no .ico/.exe extension, which Windows Installer needs for
advertised shortcuts and ARPPRODUCTICON, so both showed a blank icon. Release
builds of the desktop app are now GUI-subsystem (no console window; the CLI stays
a console program), the shortcut/summary description names what EffectCraft does, and
packaging-lint rejects an Icon id without an extension. Found in printcraft#57.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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