Crate pacenotes_installer 

Pacenotes Installer: common controls, the developer self-test, then the wizard. The Win32-free logic lives in the sibling library (lib.rs).

Modules

api 🔒

The server’s endpoints: URLs in, parsed bodies out. The transport is http and the thread is worker.

crash 🔒

A GUI binary with panic = "abort" has nowhere to print, so a panic would be a vanished window and an offset into a stripped exe. The hook runs before the abort: it writes where and why into the run log, and tells the user in their language where that is, offering to show the file.

elevation 🔒

Restarting as administrator, for a game folder this account cannot write (P11): what the new instance carries over so nothing is asked twice, and the UAC launch itself.

game_process 🔒

http 🔒

The installer’s only HTTP client: WinHTTP, whose TLS is the OS’s own Schannel. Blocking, so it runs on the worker thread, never the UI thread.

i18n 🔒

Localization: the strings live in per-language STRINGTABLEs in res/installer.rc, and choosing a language is SetThreadUILanguage. The IDS_* ids below match the #defines there.

package_download 🔒

Fetching a package into the cache. A payload enters the cache only after its sha256 matched the manifest, so nothing downstream verifies it again.

run_header 🔒

selftest 🔒

Developer checks that run one real network path without the wizard and report to a file or a MessageBox, since a GUI-subsystem binary has no stdout.

single_instance 🔒

ui 🔒

The Win32 vocabulary the wizard pages are written in.

wizard 🔒

The wizard: a comctl32 PropertySheet in wizard mode, one page per scene of installer/DESIGN.md rev. 2. Scene 1 shares the sheet’s frame rather than being the small window DESIGN.md describes, since a sheet has one size.

worker 🔒

The one background thread. A worker never touches a control: it posts messages and the UI thread acts on them.

Constants

DEFAULT_SERVER 🔒

From installer/.env, read by build.rs; --server <url> overrides it, which is how the tests reach a local server.

Functions

argument_after 🔒

cache_override 🔒

--cache <dir>, an override for development: the cache belongs in the game folder, which is not known until scene 3 settles one.

init_common_controls 🔒

main 🔒

server_url 🔒