Feature Requests item #1847286, was opened at 2007-12-09 15:40
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Category: compiler
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Status: Open
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: lewis (lewis_rfl)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Dialog subclassing

Initial Comment:
Right now - if I understand correctly, if I wish to modify a dialog from the 
WIX UI dialogs - I must copy and paste that dialog from the project sources 
into my .wix file, and modify as desired.

This style of programming is fragile, as you folks are likely to want to make 
future changes to those dialogs.

The simple workaround for this would be a very simple feature addition (which 
Bob Arnson pointed out in email to me was similar to what you already do for 
"floating" Publish elements) - which allows you to define a dialog as 'BASED 
ON' another, and with 'control eleemnts' etc - getting extra attributes like 
'insertAfter' or 'replaces' , or 'deletes' - so that you can add elements, 
delete elements or replace any element of the dialog, and still inherit future 
changes to the rest of the dialog.


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Comment By: kamol (kmierzejewski)
Date: 2007-12-17 11:47

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In XUL there are <overlay> elements that have the desired behavior. WiX
could implement UI customization using the same approach

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