Re: [WiX-users] WiX custom dialogs insight.
You can check these links http://dizzymonkeydesign.com/blog/misc/adding-and-customizing-dlgs-in-wix-3/ http://blog.wharton.com.au/2007/06/windows-installer-xml-wix-30-snippets.html http://www.wixwiki.com/index.php?title=Main_Page http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/index.php The last link would be the first to understand about Wix. I read all of them to get a feel of Wix even though I do get stuck sometimes and people in this mailing list do help a lot. Hope this helps. Arun Perregattur -Original Message- From: Tezuka Kunimitsu [mailto:osu...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 8:31 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] WiX custom dialogs insight. We are currently developing a new product and would like to use WiX to create our installer, but we still have some doubts about WiX usage. The version of WiX in question is v3. The problem is our installer does not make use only of WiX dialog sets (WixUI_Mondo, WixUI_InstallDir and so on), but it has some custom dialogs like 'Select SQl Server dialog', 'Inform user and password' and others that is not present on these sets. We also need to write values in the registry and install and lauch a service. This seems like a common scenario, but we couldn't find the right way to these things, and the scarse WiX documentation on the internet wasn't helping much. We were able to make a Wix installer that is launching a Wizard (that we made in Windows Forms) during the WiX installation process, this Wizard has the custom dialogs that we need. But after collecting some more info, we realized that the WiX dialogs order can be modified and it's possible to create new dialogs only using the WiX syntax and Custom Actions. What would be the right way to do this? 1) Create our custom dialogs using WiX syntax and integrate them with the WiX dialogs sets, if it's really possible to create any type of dialog using only this. 2) Create our custom dialogs in a separate project using Windows Forms, WPF or whatever and launch this during or after the installation process. Much like what is being made with our currently installer. 3) Other option...? Thank you for your help. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] WiX custom dialogs insight.
Hi! Here's a page demonstrating how to customize the installation flow. http://www.wixwiki.com/index.php?title=WixUI_Custom http://www.wixwiki.com/index.php?title=WixUI_Custom you should choose the UI sequence that fits your installer the most, get it's stock sequence, copy and paste, then is just a matter of programming your dialog, and plugging it on the sequence. it's somewhat cumbersome for a first timer, but fairly easy to program. joe -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/WiX-custom-dialogs-insight.-tp2192149p2192338.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] WiX custom dialogs insight.
There is some information on customising the standard dialogs here: http://neilsleightholm.blogspot.com/2008/08/customised-uis-for-wix.html. I use WiXEdit to create the dialogs: http://wixedit.sourceforge.net/. It is a bit clunky but quicker than doing it by hand. Neil -Original Message- From: Tezuka Kunimitsu [mailto:osu...@gmail.com] Sent: 21 January 2009 13:31 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] WiX custom dialogs insight. We are currently developing a new product and would like to use WiX to create our installer, but we still have some doubts about WiX usage. The version of WiX in question is v3. The problem is our installer does not make use only of WiX dialog sets (WixUI_Mondo, WixUI_InstallDir and so on), but it has some custom dialogs like 'Select SQl Server dialog', 'Inform user and password' and others that is not present on these sets. We also need to write values in the registry and install and lauch a service. This seems like a common scenario, but we couldn't find the right way to these things, and the scarse WiX documentation on the internet wasn't helping much. We were able to make a Wix installer that is launching a Wizard (that we made in Windows Forms) during the WiX installation process, this Wizard has the custom dialogs that we need. But after collecting some more info, we realized that the WiX dialogs order can be modified and it's possible to create new dialogs only using the WiX syntax and Custom Actions. What would be the right way to do this? 1) Create our custom dialogs using WiX syntax and integrate them with the WiX dialogs sets, if it's really possible to create any type of dialog using only this. 2) Create our custom dialogs in a separate project using Windows Forms, WPF or whatever and launch this during or after the installation process. Much like what is being made with our currently installer. 3) Other option...? Thank you for your help. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] WiX custom dialogs insight.
I would like to thank you all for the help and links. They will certainly help us a lot. :) On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Neil Sleightholm n...@x2systems.comwrote: There is some information on customising the standard dialogs here: http://neilsleightholm.blogspot.com/2008/08/customised-uis-for-wix.html. I use WiXEdit to create the dialogs: http://wixedit.sourceforge.net/. It is a bit clunky but quicker than doing it by hand. Neil -Original Message- From: Tezuka Kunimitsu [mailto:osu...@gmail.com] Sent: 21 January 2009 13:31 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] WiX custom dialogs insight. We are currently developing a new product and would like to use WiX to create our installer, but we still have some doubts about WiX usage. The version of WiX in question is v3. The problem is our installer does not make use only of WiX dialog sets (WixUI_Mondo, WixUI_InstallDir and so on), but it has some custom dialogs like 'Select SQl Server dialog', 'Inform user and password' and others that is not present on these sets. We also need to write values in the registry and install and lauch a service. This seems like a common scenario, but we couldn't find the right way to these things, and the scarse WiX documentation on the internet wasn't helping much. We were able to make a Wix installer that is launching a Wizard (that we made in Windows Forms) during the WiX installation process, this Wizard has the custom dialogs that we need. But after collecting some more info, we realized that the WiX dialogs order can be modified and it's possible to create new dialogs only using the WiX syntax and Custom Actions. What would be the right way to do this? 1) Create our custom dialogs using WiX syntax and integrate them with the WiX dialogs sets, if it's really possible to create any type of dialog using only this. 2) Create our custom dialogs in a separate project using Windows Forms, WPF or whatever and launch this during or after the installation process. Much like what is being made with our currently installer. 3) Other option...? Thank you for your help. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
