Missing Text from programs run on XPE

[Kathryn Hall]

I've got a basic XPE image running on my box, and have
added a good chunk of component functionality (including
Shockwave Flash and .NET), but when I run some programs on
XPE (stuff that runs fine on XP Pro), text is missing from
some of the buttons.

An example of this is running the IntelPRO network
connections driver install for 2000/XP... Once the
Installshield program finishes extracting the files needed
to install, and starts displaying the Intel screen, no
text appears on the Intel screen's buttons, and some of
the buttons are missing entirely.

What components do I need to make sure I have in order for
this stuff to display correctly? What areas of things
should I be looking at as potential causes for the non-
display of button text? (To be honest, I'm not 100% sure
the button text is text... it may be an image instead.)
Either way, I'm stuck on this problem.

I've also had other issues with other installation
programs failing mid-install, as if there's something
they're trying to do that they aren't allowed to, but need
to do in order to continue... help on this would be
appreciated too.

-Kathryn

 

[Simon Wilton]

No real certainty - but a couple of ideas.

On a product I did a couple of years ago we did automatic language
translation of button captions, and other standard strings, by extracting
resouces from various 'well known' system libraries. As far as I remember
Shell32.DLL and WinINet.DLL were particularly productive.

The driver might be assuming that a resource is available on the system
(fair assumption in the desktop case), but in fact your XPe build does not
need it, and has not included it.

I would also ask why you are running the install rather than including a
component for it in the build? If you don't want the standard set-up - and
the component does not have adjustable settings, edit the INF file and
create a new component from it. Unless some-one shatters my illusion, you
can do anything that you would want to set on a per system basis with
'netsh'.

HTH

Simon

 

[Kathryn Hall]

The adapter is just an example... there are other programs
which do not install properly on the XPE build that are
not drivers... And other programs which lack text once
installed and running. Simply making them into components
does not solve the problem, as the end user will need to
be able to install their own stuff as well.

-Kathryn

 

[Lynda Allen [MS]]

You might want to search google.groups for issues related to font.

Bear in mind when trying to install programs post-FBA on a runtime, you may
not have all the files required by that install built into the runtime image
which will result in hangs/errors etc.
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Hope this helps,

Lynda

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