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.com>wrote: > 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
