No, this had no effect. the little status window did not change. Your instructions were pretty simple, I just added a <UI> element to the WIX script, referring to the ID of the custom action, and I expected the message to appear while the CA was running. The CA takes several seconds, but there was no change to the message on the msiexec status window and nothing appeared in the verbose msiexec session log to indicate that the <UI> element was processed. There are no build errors or warnings.
Maybe I should mention that my installer has a custom UI wizard. That works fine, but my point is that this installer does have a UI prior to the msiexec status window appearing. Thanks, Gary ----- Original Message ---- From: Christopher Painter <chr...@de...> - 2010-08-07 02:09 If you just want a simple message to be displayed, consider using the ActionText table ( ProgressText element ) You shouldn't need a CA to do that. http://jonorossi.com/blog/archive/2008/07/20/wix-progress-text-for-a-custom- action.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367516(VS.85).aspx Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me ----- Original Message ---- From: Gary Gocek <g...@gocek.org> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Fri, August 6, 2010 8:02:15 PM Subject: [WiX-users] Updating msiexec status window from custom action Hi all, I work on a wix-based, C# .NET installer, currently targeting Windows Server 2008 installs with msiexec v4 or greater. The installer invokes a deferred custom action. This works as expected. Files are deployed, custom action tasks are performed, errors result in a clean rollback, etc. While the installer is running, msiexec pops up a rectangular status window with a title (the application name), a message in the body of the window ("please wait while Windows configures <application>"), another message ("time remaining: 7 seconds"), and a status bar showing the percentage completed. By default, the time remaining and status bar only consider the file deployment, prior to the deferred CA, so the time remaining gets stuck while the CA runs. I want to insert a message into the body of that msiexec status window that says, "be patient, creating databases" or whatever. I don't care what the time remaining says or where the status bar is. I have found several related forum posts, some complicated and some simple, but nothing has worked for me. For example, this has no visible effect and throws no exceptions: var record = new Record(3); record[1] = "caller id" + DateTime.Now.Ticks.ToString(); // ensures every ActionStart is different record[2] = "custom message"; record[3] = ""; MessageResult mr = session.Message(InstallMessage.ActionStart, record); This is logged in the msiexec log, but how do I hack the msiexec status window to show my own messages? Ultimately, this should be localizable, but just get me through the first step of displaying any message at all. Thanks, Gary ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
