Installer [UI] problem on Mac

[Tim Dierks <ti...@dierks.org>]

OK, so I wrote the whole e-mail below, then I figured out it was just my
error (due to confusing/non-standard UI). I was going to just delete the
e-mail, but I'm sending it to let you know this is confusing and as a
possible signpost for someone else who has the same problem.

In the screen shot below, the red boxes to the left of the list items are
checkboxes. They need to be checked (at least, all the "Required" ones do).
They don't look like any checkboxes I've ever seen, and there's no UI hint
that they're click targets of their own, rather than just list bullet icons
of some kind.

 - Tim

[My original draft]

I'm unsure what's going on here or if this is an EBCAK.

I just downloaded the SDK installer from
http://flex.apache.org/installer.html and when I attempt to run the
installer (the actual Air app that the bootstrap installer installs), I am
unable to proceed. Is the screenshot below missing some UI which is
intended to allow me to accept the licenses? Or am I just being a moron?

[image: Inline image 1]

As you can see, "Install" is dimmed. The phrasing in the right pane leads
me to believe there should be some controls (button, checkbox, whatever)
under the text, but it's not appearing.

Thanks,
 - Tim

Re: Installer [UI] problem on Mac

[Om <bi...@gmail.com>]

Tim,

You are not alone.  We have had several people complain about this
confusing UI.  The good news is that this has been fixed in the develop
branch and will show up properly in the next release.

If you have some bandwidth, you could test out how the new UI looks by
checking out the code from SVN here:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/flex/utilities/trunk/

Regards,
Om

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Tim Dierks <ti...@dierks.org> wrote:

> OK, so I wrote the whole e-mail below, then I figured out it was just my
> error (due to confusing/non-standard UI). I was going to just delete the
> e-mail, but I'm sending it to let you know this is confusing and as a
> possible signpost for someone else who has the same problem.
>
> In the screen shot below, the red boxes to the left of the list items are
> checkboxes. They need to be checked (at least, all the "Required" ones do).
> They don't look like any checkboxes I've ever seen, and there's no UI hint
> that they're click targets of their own, rather than just list bullet icons
> of some kind.
>
>  - Tim
>
> [My original draft]
>
> I'm unsure what's going on here or if this is an EBCAK.
>
> I just downloaded the SDK installer from
> http://flex.apache.org/installer.html and when I attempt to run the
> installer (the actual Air app that the bootstrap installer installs), I am
> unable to proceed. Is the screenshot below missing some UI which is
> intended to allow me to accept the licenses? Or am I just being a moron?
>
> [image: Inline image 1]
>
> As you can see, "Install" is dimmed. The phrasing in the right pane leads
> me to believe there should be some controls (button, checkbox, whatever)
> under the text, but it's not appearing.
>
> Thanks,
>  - Tim
>
>