The sample that Harold Wood posted is for MSI dialogs, not the burn
bootstrapper. The standard bootstrapper is very limited in what it can do,
unfortunately. Most of which is pretty hard coded.
The Wix installer (in the burn solution) is a good sample on how to quickly
write your own if something simple will work for you. By & large if you have a
standard approach it's probably easier to author your own in a WPF app.
You can use the balextensions functionality to do some of this work, but I
strongly suggest you don't go that route. It's very limited and what you can
author in the theme files makes it so you're hardcoding everything anyway.
There's a need for something like XAML Bindings; e.g. Content="{Binding
someVariable" and I have mocked up support for it in a branch. You can see my
commit to get the starting point for the changes here:
https://wix.codeplex.com/SourceControl/network/forks/bryanwolf/AddBindingsToBurn/changeset/f976392586ccd57864ca09e7745c2c51b25d288a.
Unfortunately, due to work agreement, the copyright of that code is muddy
waters (which is why I haven't pushed the remaining work to make it more
complete nor submitted a pull request/official RFC). But I would say feel free
to create your own fork from the base wix38 branch if you're feeling
adventurous and I'll be glad to give advice where I can :-)
Anyway, just my thoughts.
-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Dart [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 1:45 PM
To: General discussion about the WiX toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Require fields/disable InstallButton in bootstrapper
Thanks Harold,
I've been trying to get custom actions to work from the
WixStandardBootstrapperApplication without much luck. When I look in the xsd,
it doesn't have Control as an option for Page. Additionally, when just trying
to sub in Control for Button, the built bootstrapper immediately crashes.
Is the example you're using work on the bootstrapper or will it only work when
customizing the msi? When looking around the source for the
WixStandardBootstrapperApplication, it looks like the enable/disable is being
handled explicitly in the code versus the _____State variable trick. My gut is
telling me this cannot be done without implementing a custom
bootstrapperapplication.
________________________________________
From: Harold Wood (H10 Capital) [[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2014 2:40 PM
To: General discussion about the WiX toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Require fields/disable InstallButton in bootstrapper
I use a custom action that gets fired when they click the next button, if there
is an error it takes me to my error dialog, the next button on that loops me
back to this dialog so the newly entered value can get validated again.
<Control Id="NextDlg" Type="PushButton" X="236" Y="243" Width="56"
Height="17" Default="yes" Text="Next">
<Publish Event="DoAction" Value="VerifySQLServer">1</Publish>
<Publish Event="DoAction" Value="VerifySQLServer.Get">1</Publish>
<!-- if there is a server error redisplay the database screen else go
to the verify screen -->
<Publish Event="NewDialog"
Value="DialogError"><![CDATA[SERVERERROR~="1"]]></Publish>
<Publish Event="NewDialog"
Value="DialogVerify"><![CDATA[SERVERERROR~="0"]]></Publish>
</Control>
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