Did you try just showing a standard windows forms message box from within
your C# custom action?
MessageBox.Show()
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 12:31 PM, <daniel.knoep...@noser.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Christopher
>
> I currently have the action scheduled after "CreateFolders". I use the CA
> almost like a startup-condition. There may also be other places where i
> intend to show a messagebox, but this is not defined yet.
>
> I hoped it would be something rather simple, either a flag or set the focus
> of the WindowsForms message box. I fear the solution may be a little more
> complicated.
>
> Greetings
>
>
> ________________________________________
> Von: Christopher Painter [chr...@deploymentengineering.com]
> Gesendet: Montag, 19. Juli 2010 18:18
> An: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
> Betreff: Re: [WiX-users] Messagebox from custom action with a lot of text
>
> Where is this custom action scheduled? I usually have a reusable dialog
> that
> contains an error property and then have my CA set the property and return.
> ControlEvents then detect the error property has data and do a SpawnDialog
> on
> the generic error dialog and gate transition to the next dialog.
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> From: "daniel.knoep...@noser.com" <daniel.knoep...@noser.com>
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Sent: Mon, July 19, 2010 10:55:12 AM
> Subject: [WiX-users] Messagebox from custom action with a lot of text
>
> Hi
>
> In our wix installer a C# custom action, needs to pop up a window to show a
> message that might be quite long.
> I currently do it the following way:
>
>
> public void ShowWarningMessageBox(string pMessage)
>
> {
>
>
>
> Record record = new Record();
>
> record.FormatString = pMessage;
>
> Session.Message(InstallMessage.Error |
> (InstallMessage)System.Windows.Forms.MessageBoxIcon.Warning |
>
> (InstallMessage)System.Windows.Forms.MessageBoxButtons.OK, record);
>
>
>
>
>
> Unfortunately, longer messages are not fully shown, only parts of it. Is
> there a
> way to ensure that the entire text is displayed?
>
>
>
> If somehow possible, i would like to stick with the Wix session.Message
> method,
> rather than using windows forms because of the focus. If somebody knows,
> how to
> ensure that the focus is set correctly in a windows forms message box, i
> would
> also happily go with that (preventing displaying a msgbox in silent mode is
> no
> problem as the uilevel property can be checked)
>
>
>
> Greetigns and thanks in advance
>
>
>
> Dan
>
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