Re: [WiX-users] UI Custom Action displays dialog behing MSI UI

; Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 1:32 PM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] UI Custom Action displays dialog behing MSI UI > > Hello, > > I have a WiX installation that shows within a custom action a > dialog from a dll that is installed dur

Re: [WiX-users] UI Custom Action displays dialog behing MSI

What does the dialog do? What you are describing is not the right way to do this, IMO. That's why its not working the way you want; Windows Installer isn't designed to support this. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download

Re: [WiX-users] UI Custom Action displays dialog behing MSI

in order to set properties, etc., so you will have to implement information flow going that way yourself (some sort of IPC, perhaps?). -Original Message- From: Tobi Ha [mailto:tob...@gmx.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 1:50 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-

Re: [WiX-users] UI Custom Action displays dialog behing MSI

in the programm and so not implement it twice. The problem is not to show this dialog, but that it is "hidden" behind the normal MSI GUI. Best regards, Tobias Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:19:02 -0700 From: Richard Subject: Re: [WiX-users] UI Custom Action displays dialog

Re: [WiX-users] UI Custom Action displays dialog behing MSI UI

Use MsiProcessMessage to display message boxes, not MessageBox. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download Legalize Adulthood!

[WiX-users] UI Custom Action displays dialog behing MSI UI

Hello, I have a WiX installation that shows within a custom action a dialog from a dll that is installed during this installation. It all works fine, except that the dialogs appears behind the normal MSI UI. Here a short example how my custom action looks like (instead of message box, a real U